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A small highlight for Friday was when John from Tyee popped over and offer to take Ben wake boarding. This is a bit like water skiing but on a single small board. Ben took to it very quickly and was soon circling the boat weaving from side to side.<\/p>\n
<\/embed><\/p>\nThis morning, at 7am, we were off. We retrieved the anchor\/chain from amongst the coral heads it had wrapped up in and headed out into the channel. There was about 2 knots of current heading out into an opposing sea swell which made for a very bumpy exit. We didn’t reach stable water until about half a mile out where we hoisted sails and have been sailing ever since.<\/p>\nThe waters seem quite active. It didn’t take long before we’d lost two more lures. I was beginning to wonder if we’ll ever catch another fish when we snagged a mahi mahi which we not only landed but kept. It weighed in at 20lb making it the largest mahi mahi we’ve landed. It’s size made it quite awkward to handle on the back step. By the time we had it bled out there was blood everywhere from it’s thrashings. We had to use some rum to quieten it down which I don’t really like to do as it slows the heart down and lessens the bleeding out.<\/p>\n<\/embed><\/p>\nWe’ve made good time today with the strong winds. They’ve recently clocked round more to the east and slackened off. We have an opportunity to arrive by the 17th if we don’t lose any more wind. One less overnight passage will please all aboard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A small highlight for Friday was when John from Tyee popped over and offer to take Ben wake boarding. This is a bit like water skiing but on a single small board. Ben took to it very quickly and was soon circling the boat weaving from side to side.<\/p>\n\nThis morning, at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,126,154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-sea","category-society-islands","category-tyee","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3450"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3524,"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450\/revisions\/3524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
This morning, at 7am, we were off. We retrieved the anchor\/chain from amongst the coral heads it had wrapped up in and headed out into the channel. There was about 2 knots of current heading out into an opposing sea swell which made for a very bumpy exit. We didn’t reach stable water until about half a mile out where we hoisted sails and have been sailing ever since.<\/p>\n
The waters seem quite active. It didn’t take long before we’d lost two more lures. I was beginning to wonder if we’ll ever catch another fish when we snagged a mahi mahi which we not only landed but kept. It weighed in at 20lb making it the largest mahi mahi we’ve landed. It’s size made it quite awkward to handle on the back step. By the time we had it bled out there was blood everywhere from it’s thrashings. We had to use some rum to quieten it down which I don’t really like to do as it slows the heart down and lessens the bleeding out.<\/p>\n
<\/embed><\/p>\nWe’ve made good time today with the strong winds. They’ve recently clocked round more to the east and slackened off. We have an opportunity to arrive by the 17th if we don’t lose any more wind. One less overnight passage will please all aboard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A small highlight for Friday was when John from Tyee popped over and offer to take Ben wake boarding. This is a bit like water skiing but on a single small board. Ben took to it very quickly and was soon circling the boat weaving from side to side.<\/p>\n\nThis morning, at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,126,154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-sea","category-society-islands","category-tyee","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3450"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3524,"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450\/revisions\/3524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
We’ve made good time today with the strong winds. They’ve recently clocked round more to the east and slackened off. We have an opportunity to arrive by the 17th if we don’t lose any more wind. One less overnight passage will please all aboard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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