"02 degrees 13.6 minutes South, 95 degrees 55 minutes West. Sun's just come up...but the wind's just disappeared. Again. So the engine's on, which means it's loud and smelly. But at least it means I can use the computer to write an email. Still can't quite get over the fact that even out here in the ocean we're still able to be online! Actually, even without email we're still not totally incommunicado. We can use our Single Side Band radio to get the World Service (including the Archers if we're lucky) and also to talk to other boats nearby on a 'Net' - it's a bit like the Waltons, everyone checks in every morning and evening to say where they are and what the weather's like!
Other news: C has caught, killed and filleted two mahi mahi (dorado - every time he catches a fish I have to get out the piece of paper with the pictures of FISH YOU MUST NOT EAT to check it's ok. The first one he caught was only a tiddler and I told him to throw it back. He said it had a bloody great hook through it's gob and had been dragged for miles so was half dead anyway, so he didn't throw it back. I did my bit for fish protection the next morning though when I threw a kamikazee flying fish back in the sea after it jumped on our deck. C was also visited during the night - by a flying squid which landed at his feet in the cockpit!!)
Not much else to report - have been sewing, read a v bad Robert Ludlum book and trying to think of inventive things to do with cabbage as we have lots of it. Hope we find the elusive South East Trade Winds soon. H&Cxx"
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