Well, today is a lovely warm day with mild seas and scattered clouds in the middle of the Indian. 800 odd miles to go only. Wind will be behind us for next 150 miles ie a days sailing so we are motor sailing & will motor latter when it is dead astern. Yesterday Arti delighted us with a sultan cake, and dinner of Mahi mahi in ginger & shallots with couscous! John must be getting bored, he is getting knitting lessons from Arti. Turns out to be very good at it!
I never told the story of John and the large (1.2 meter) Mahi mahi. We were having dinner, when his reel went Whirr, so he went to the stern and started to fight the fish. We were going 8.5 knots, to fast to bring him in so Arti and I let out sail to no avail. We then hove to, ie turned the boat thru the wind without changing side of sails. Boat of course leaned the opposite way from usual, and everything down bellow went flying. Bang, crash, but we slowed to 3.5 Knots. Meanwhile the fish is leaping out the water, fighting John furiously, and took all his line down to the knot!. As we slowed the fish caught up to the boat and went under us , but after much effort John had him at the transom. My net was far to small, so John played him till we got the gaff and brought him aboard! Very exciting, so we delayed dinner till we filleted and froze him. No one minded cold dinner or tidying the boat after that.
I love watching John stagger around the boat—he looks like a cartoon of a drunk as he lurches across the cabin,but always reaches his handhold.
Arti & Dimitri
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