When I woke up this morning I was delighted to discover we had wind and we were sailing. It wasn’t coming from a perfect direction but at least we were heading west. I felt we were flying but in reality we were only going about 5 knots. Compared with our recent speed record, we were flying. As the day progressed the wind increase a little allowing us to occasionally hit 6 knots!
\nIn general it was a lazy day. I’m reading ‘The Time Travelers Wife’ which is pretty engrossing. Its certainly passing the time away.
\nWhen I took over for my night shift the wind had picked up even more and was coming from the right direction. We were averaging over 6 knots, it was wonderful. Near the end of my shift I went downstairs to put a few things away in my cabin. Steve suddenly wakes up and shouts ‘There’s water on me’. When we switched on the light there was a wet fish on him. He’d opened the top hatch for some air and the flying fish must have got in from the deck. Of course the bed stank of fish so we had to change the sheets and Steve to shower. At least we caught one fish today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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