Dolphin Delights

Dolphins sighted and 2118.5nm to go for Casamara but all’s well in the galley…

Day 4

Had rain last night for twenty minutes which was nice as it gave deck and sails a wash.  Today has been another day of blue sky sailing. Cracking along at 7 plus knots on 245 degrees. We are now fully into seamless watches of three hours although pretty much everyone is awake during the day.  We have pumped up the music today and have had the pleasure of Tim’s 70’s disco hits which requires a lot of on deck gyrating!

 I love being skipper – I even get breakfast in bed on occasions.

The fleet are talking about a hole in the wind over the weekend – so we have had endless discussions on strategy (not really) and just ploughing on to get South.

Fishing has so far delivered zero but something is biting all our lures!  

Over to Julian for the food update: SP

 Meals are very continental in style now as the weather has been so warm and sunny.  We went for a healthy muesli style breakfast this morning with some fresh fruit and yoghurt.  Lunch consisted of fettuccine pasta with shrimp, lemon and sundried tomatoes, wrapped in a white wine and cream sauce.   While we were all enjoying this, we were again treated to some unexpected but very welcome lunchtime guests, as another school of Dolphin dropped by to check out how things were going on Casamara!

 Dinner was an excellent example of one pot cooking with rice liberally covering the bottom of a large oven dish, steeped in chicken stock with black olives, garlic, herbs, chorizo sausage and chicken thighs placed on top, all with a good coating of olive oil and cooked to perfection.   A variation on a fantastic dish my wife frequently treats us to at home!

Fishing has been frustrating as Simon has already mentioned.  We had one fish on the line for about 10 minutes in the morning and while trying to reel in, it somehow managed to get off the line!   The second strike took masses and masses of line out, but when we finally got to the rod, the line had broken and the lure, weights, the lot, had all gone!   So our game of chess with the fish of the Atlantic is getting interesting to say the least, it’s over to us again now, so keep watching for our next move! JK 

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