We hooked up another dorado last night near sunset. There was some disagreement as how best to bring it in (Oisin: play the fish, tire him out; Sean: haul the thing in as quickly as possible, it's just a little dorado.) The fish escaped just before being landed - Oisin maintains it was so terrified by the blod-thirsty mob waiting on deck with knives and winch handles that it managed one last heroic effort to escape.In other news, we've been one week at sea as of mid-day today.
It's another spinnaker day; going by the holes in various sailing gloves, the score is spinnaker 2, gloves zip. But we're sailing along nicely with it now.
Sean coiling spinnaker lines; gives you an idea of how big all the lines on this boat are.
Lots of completely random things going on today: did a bit of cleaning (things do get grubby with 7 folks living in a confined space!); and some laundry (the seas are calm enough for both washer and dryer to function well); glove repair (see spinnaker, above); and we've come far enough west that we're setting Boat Time to be minus another hour. There's a rumor of scones to be had later with some tea - we can be civilized even here in the middle of nowhere.
The Flora and Fauna report is getting a bit repetitive - plenty of flying fish, one suicidal fish overnight, a couple of dolphins heard but not seen on a night watch.
The off-watch crew have started playing a card game called "switch" - very much like the game of Uno, but played with a regular deck of cards. It's likely to become an obsession if we're not careful.
Hard to believe it's December - the water temp is 82, we're all on deck in shorts & tank tops!
If we stay on this schedule, it'll be time for the Halfway Party tomorrow - it's fancy dress (which none of us brought, except perhaps for Casey) so we anticipate getting very creative with bin bags (that's WT-speak for trash bags for our North American readers) and duct tape...
2 Dec 2009 14:00 UTC 18 23.975 N 35 24.241 W
- Anne, for WT
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