the last days were again good sailing and no breakage!
Fishing wise Michael had a few bites on the hook - one of them must have been really big as it tore the 40kg line. in the evening though, just as he was bringing in the lure for the night a wonderful mahi-mahi bit, was landed and filleted!
the weather is quite alright - probably not as hot as hoped, but the wind is good and the wind direction helps us too.
nevertheless we took it a bit easier the last 2-3 days as we all felt quite tired after nights with heavy seas (i had to put on another sea sickness patch, even though I hardly have trouble with sea sickness) - so instead of changing sails immediately we sometimes went along with lesser wind and did 6kn instead of our normal speed. unfortunately we also got overtaken by a couple of boats...but hey, we all had a great sleep!
we had small repairs like undoing the furling line on our headsail. it somehow rolled up wrong and caused the furler to block. but it was just a matter of 10min on the front of the boat getting it sorted. so "knock on wood" maloo is doing great!
it is somehow strange when you look out into the vast blue and never get bored of looking at it. the color of the sea somehow also seems to change (even though I know this is rubbish) but the light and sun angle is a different one being further south and with water temperature rising to 24,6°C I so look forward to a swim in the caribbean.
so far there has also been no way of being bored, I actually seem to have no time for reading my books I was so looking forward to.
whenever I am off shift, there is something to do like: check the veggies in their boxes and turn them around, cook, have a little rest, have a shower (which proves to be a quite sporty event with the boat moving so much)...etc.
food the last days was a chicken-curry (for me with veggies of course;)), bangers and lemon-mash (really yummy) ( i.e. bratwurst mit zitronen-kartoffel puree, for all my non aussie-slang-speakers out there) with a carrot-salad, roasted chicken legs with roasted vegetables.... so you see, we still eat fresh stuff.
cooking also is quite a difficult task to master, when the boat is heeling over 30° in one moment and then 20° on the opposite side- just yesterday I spilled a cup of dry rice. the remains we will probably find till we arrive in australia. I am proud to announce though, that I even managed to make pancakes the other day for breakfast.
today we also celebrated our half-way party! we said our good byes to spain in style with a couple of goodies we brought with from the Canaries such as iberico ham and salami, yummie goats cheese (that even mark liked) and a wonderful bottle of cava. the highlight was definitely the mahi mahi though that i did in the pan with just a little olive oil and lemon. I have to say, that was probably the best fish I ever had!
this lunch was also a little boost for the moral on board. we have been doing all right so far, still with being thrown around in the boat so much it is sometimes rather hard to keep a happy face all the time. but as we get closer and closer to the trade winds and the sea easing off, spirits rise.
if the wind-god is with us, we might arrive saturday in one week - so fingers crossed!!!!
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