the only great excitement of day 4 was the arrival of our first fish!!! as you can see, he's a handsome green mahi (or dorado, or dolphinfish) who fell for one of the day-glo octopi David had trailing in the water behind us. he bit at dusk, just after D. and I had gone off watch -- but David got him up into the boat, and proceded to knock him out with a winch handle (we'd meant to bring some cheap vodka to pour on fishes' gills to kill them, but forgot it when we mostly bypassed bringing booze for ourselves) and neatly turn him into fillets.
the most hilarious thing is that all while this was happening, David's iPod was playing, as part of a random assortment of music, a ridiculously melodramatic tango -- which seemed completely over-the-top perfect to go along with the demise of the fish! we were all laughing so hard that by the time I managed to get below to pick up my camera that can make a video, the tango had ended -- but i made a little video anyway, accompanied by some different (and not quite so funny, but still overly romantic) music, while David tried to get the proper knife handed up to him -- see the video clip here:
http://www.vimeo.com/224810
and a bit more of filleting, plus commentary from Mouse and I (watching from a safe distance), here:
http://www.vimeo.com/224831
it was too late in the evening to actually EAT mr. fish (and David and I both needed to get to sleep, to get ready for our midnight watch), so he was wrapped up in saran wrap & tin foil and placed in the freezer, to await being turned into treats another day... we all pitched in to help clean up the cockpit of fish blood, washing everything clean, and then off to sleep!
oh, and I just realized I forgot to include the day 4 log in my previous post -- at noon PDT we were located at 27° 52' 5" N, 154° 42' 8" W -- that means that from day 3 noon to day 4 noon was our fastest 24-hour run, 187 nautical miles -- but still 1651 n.m. to travel to san francisco!
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