Island Kea II - 8th day at sea
Island Kea II
Steve and Katrin Everett
Sun 2 Dec 2007 12:20
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Position as at 12.00 midday UTC 2nd of
December
21:56.28N
31:28.30W
Yesterday
was a great day. The pole got fixed at midday and we got the parasailor up
after midday. We were doing 7-8 and sometimes 9 kts all day so good progress
made. We kept it up until 9pm UTC and then got the main and jib out for
the night. It was a wonderful sunny day and we cought our first
fish. This was a durado or sometimes called dolphin fish because of the
shape of the head. Tom got it on board onto the welcome on board mat and
gave it some gin so it died without too much struggle. I then go to work
on gutting and filleting - just like the fish factory in the old days!! We
took a picture and I will try to post this later, it was a wonderful green
colour. I cannot send many pictures as our link is very slow and only
really suitable for texts. Our evening meal was lovely fish with canarian
potatoes with green canarian sauce.. Tom shaved his beard off and now
looks much younger and also celebrated by pooring buckets of see water all over
himself.
As far as
night watches were concerned, I was on 9-12 pm and I had skies full of
wonderful stars and saw my first shooting star but for the others it was mostly
rain. The boat was rocking a lot side to side as we seemed to have
follwoing seas from two directions but everyone managed to get some sleep even
though not much. I have somehow managed to gain a skill to get some sleep
in all conditions, as long as I understand what the noise is I am
happy....
Today it
is cloudy and follwoing seas still from two directions and sometimes blowing up
more than 25 kts so we have decided to stick to the normal sails for now,
but later on we may put up the cruising chute or the parasailor.
Katrin
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