Friday, April 15, 2011

Two great days so far

Cruising with Papillon
15.00 Local 15 April
Course: 224°
Distance covered last 24hrs until 01h00 UTC: 157 nm
Distance to Galapagos: 590nm
Position 04°45 N 082°12 W
The sailing so far has been really good and we have had more wind than expected. Yesterday the wind was 20-25kn from the N and stayed like that most the day. Overnight we had a mixed bag of wind and did a few sail changes. Today the wind has been a mixed bag as well with it slowly moving all the way to the SE. It has been cloudy today which has kept life on board a little cooler... no rain as yet. Last night was a lovely night under the stars with a fair size of the moon lighting up everything. The stars are like sitting in an old shed with all the sun peeping through the rusty pin holes. Today we had a large striped marlin jumping around the boat celebrating his life and freedom. We had no lures out which is good as he would weigh around 70-80kg and with us doing 5-7kn downwind he would demolish our fishing gear. Many people always want to catch big fish ... great for the photo album... but then how much fish can you keep and eat. We like the little 4-8kg fish.
So that it for now ...we hope that this wind lasts

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