This was our first catch of the journey. It's a Queenfish
and it took the bait whilst we rounded Cape Don for the
first time, right in the middle of the worst of the slop!
Cape Don was calm that day luckily so I took the helm
whilst Mike landed it and chose to use his fathers tomahawk
to put it out of its misery, then unfortunately lost it
overboard.
Blood the Deck
The term “blood the deck” is apparently what
you call the first catch of a fishing trip.
• Sailing Scot: Zig, zag, zag, zig @ Sail Blogs
With our long sojourn crossing two oceans it has been most interesting to take note of the ocean patterns themselves. The South Atlantic was very predictable and robust in it's nature. A long steady primary swell always exists with a motion that is purposeful and robust in its constant driving forward. Ceaseless it is there even in the relative calmer Trade-Wind areas, on and on it goes ever surging ahead. By contrast the North Atlantic has been very changeable. It may be that we arrived at the indistinct period of change between seasons, but its ability to change the pattern of motion in the water in a short space of time has been extremely interesting as well as fascinating. During the gales and high winds the swells were menacing and needed watching to negotiate over without slamming the boat but with seeming ease the swell could dissipate and ease of in a remarkable short space of time leaving one with the feeling that there was no malice to start with. Direct Link
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• SV ROCKSTAR: San Blas @ Sail Blogs
We had planned to leave PV last week but the weather didn't cooperate so we stayed in Paradise Village Marina and took advantage of the pool, beach and playground. We left Sunday and has a calm motor to Punta Mita where we met up with Luke and Meg for some beach time and to explore the tiny village, it took all of 3 minutes. On Tuesday the weather cleared and we had a 10 hour motor with a small head wind up to San Blas. On the way we saw a family of whales, had dolphins join us and caught 3 fish. Direct Link
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