0800 Position 29-04N 120-13W. Days run 193 miles
Conditions remain unchanged from yesterday. Apparent wind is on the starboard beam. The true wind is on the quarter at about seven to eleven knots. Our speed doesn't vary much though. We are hanging at just above eight knots. We have about five degrees of heel to port and the seas remain remarkably small.
The chaos of loading the boat has resulted in numerous misplaced items. Longy and I have been verbally sparring about our respective fishing prowess, and yesterday afternoon we went to get the fish lines to begin the much anticipated competition. Couldn't find them . The day before I had put them in a safe place but they had been moved. Nobody recalls moving them. We both tore the boat apart looking but no joy. We ended up jury rigging some halyard messengers which will suffice until the fish lines come out of hiding.
Neither one of us caught anything yesterday so today it is double or nothing. I'm pretty sure that Longy's lure is scaring the fish away before they can get a good look at mine. We may end up wagering our car's pink slips before this thing is over. The whole crew oooed and aaahed as we broke out our quivers of lures for comparison. Longy is of the bigger is better school and I am from the quality not quantity school. We shall see. We shall see….
Rob and Longy spent yesterday afternoon chasing boat issues. We have a diesel leak and we have found a significant quantity of fuel in the bilge on three occasions since we filled our tanks a week ago. Rob thinks we may have overfilled the tanks, but that doesn't explain where it is coming from. We will keep looking.
I was elected to cook last night's dinner. Lacking any sort of imagination in that department, I made a salad with all of our fresh vegis, cooked some rice, and sauted some chicken with garlic, onion, capers and lemon juice. It wasn't that good, but the boys said it was to encourage me to keep cooking so they don't have to do it. I'm not biting. The night before we had a salmon chowder that Renee had prepared for us. All we had to do was heat it up and it was fabulous. This morning Rob cooked us a feast of scrambled eggs with herbs and cheese, sausage and toast.
Life is goo aboard the good ship Van Diemen.
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