Day 5 brought us to the edge of a high pressure system: we left the rainsqualls behind, our 20-knot breezes started to calm down a bit, and things generally smoothed out on the boat -- look how much less heeled over we are! everyone took showers for the first time since we left hawaii (it's been far too bouncy prior to this), which made us all clean and happy -- and while I didn't quite manage to wash my hair, the rain from the previous day had washed all the salt out, allowing me to de-tangle it enough for David to braid it, leaving me looking rather like a larger version of my niece India (photo on Flickr).
lunchtime was the mahi caught on day 4, sauteed in butter and served up with rice and broccoli with a spicy peanut sauce -- bravo, David! and this photo was taken in the afternoon, everyone relaxing a bit, the engine running (to charge the batteries) and so the autopilot took care of the steering for a while. Mouse is basking in the sunshine (as are my seaboots, they got rather wet in a squall the day before) and David's working on more fishing lures.
and the lures worked! we caught another mahi, a big one, right at the end of David & my's 6-9pm watch -- quickly filleted and sent to the freezer, and then another big clean-up of the blood-spattered cockpit.
by this time, David and I had decided that iPods were ESSENTIAL gear for nightwatches -- sometimes we'd sit talking for hours, but more often (especially when the breeze was up, as it was hard to be heard over the wind unless you shouted, not exactly good conditions for chatting) we each plug into our own headphones while steering -- a wonderful way of keeping ones-self awake and entertained through the dark night.
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