Diary for Sailng on Windwanderer.


monday 18th November 2013

2013-11-18

Monday 18th November 2013

19 50’S. 171 .26’E

318NM to go

9am

Well  another boring rough day, although the ocean has been a mixed bag, from shocking swells to calm seas, but the calm does not last long I tell you.

I have done everything and anything to stop the boredom but nothing is working from cooking to cleaning, to reading a book on The Captains  kindle, to playing games on the laptop, to watching movies but nothing is working, I miss my Ipad.

Then I hooked a fish, yay the first one in awhile, I had changed lures and found a tiny flying fish on deck so put that on as well and a squirt of WD40 for good measure.

It was not in the water any longer than 5mins we I got the strike, just when I had layed down for asleep, up I jumped and played around with it for awhile, got it towards the back of the boat and could see it was a mahi mahi, so decided to leave it out there for awhile to wear itself out.

I then layed back down and slept for a few hours, when I got back up to check it, it was still swimming away quite happily, I could not believe it I thought for sure it would be dead by now, I started to pull it in thinking it must be at least warn out by now, boy was I wrong, these guys are one tough fish. He fought all the way, I managed to get his head out of the water and left him there for awhile.

I had some cleaning still left to do, so decided to do that first as I knew I would need a shower after filleting the fish and if I had to clean after that well then I would need another shower, so halfway through the cleanup I go check how this guy is doing, and he is finally dead, so I rush through the rest of the cleaning go change into my fish cleaning clothes,( yeah I do have those they are the ones that have the most holes and stains on them, ) and go find my fishing knife for The Captain to sharpen, only to look over the rail, with my vision of a nice fish bake for dinner gone. OMG I could not believe it, I even checked three times, and it was hooked on hard the only thing I can think of was that a much bigger fish must have got it.

So back to the boring life again I was so not happy, and the veggie dish we had for dinner really did not help…haha

Well tomorrow is another day.