Day 6 – A fish as last for Casamara’s Crew

 A Fish, a fish, my kingdom for a fish!

A fish at last for Casamara’s crew to feast upon.

Hi everyone,

As you can see from our track we are now going west having come South to avoid the wind hole.  We will be on this tack for circa 1700nm having done over a 1000nm is just 6 days.

After the challenges of the genoa shackle and mast climbing yesterday we have had a quiet day sitting in the sun and chilling out – this is after all trade wind sailing!

Tim caught a fish, our first fish a small Dorado – a good looking fish and we will have this for supper! yummee.

We are going to try the parasailor tomorrow!

Simon P

Hi everyone, just taking a break from making bread and nursing a few bruises to update you on the menu, which today, since we have not had to do the Casamara mast impression on the Cirque De Soleil is back on track! We treated ourselves to a full English breakfast today with lots of orange juice and filter coffee, followed by a lunch of tomato,onion and avocado salad with balsamic, warm baguettes, cheese and assorted pate’s. I have filleted the fish, a Dorado Tim caught earlier on a hand line and following a consensus of the best way to taste such fresh line caught Atlantic fish, will simply pan cook that tonight in a little butter on the hob and serve with a squeeze of fresh lemon! My mouth is watering just writing about it. Before I get back to my bread making though, I should just add that we have now lost three, maybe 4 lures, with another big strike again on the rod around lunchtime, taking not only the weights and lure but this time most of the line as well!. There are some big fish out there that’s for sure!  Tomorrow we will change tactics again and go for our secret weapon, which is a beast of a lure, make up of all sorts of home made things and secured to a piece of rope, an old idea taught to me by a small Tahitian lad about twenty years ago, it worked back then in the Pacific, so will see what the Atlantic’s inhabitants make of it. JK 

No end to Julian’s talent huh?!

Image: A Fish, A Dorado (I hope this is the kind of Dorado you caught, much nicer looking than the other one I found on google which was grey and boring!)

To see the track that Casamara is following use the Fleet Viewer

And to see the specialised galley oven used to pan fry the Dorado visit GN Espace