the weather lightened up again on day 13, and we went back to engine & autopilot after shaking the second reef out of the main -- david made everyone biscuits and eggs for breakfast, and we generally had a quiet day...
...until our 6-9pm watch, david put his trolling lines out again (first time since we caught the ahi tunas) around sundown, and within a half-hour at most we had a beautiful albacore on the line -- but no sooner had david reeled him in & ended his swimming days, ANOTHER one was on the line! in this photo you can see the second one trashing around in the cockpit, magnificently splattering the first one's blood everywhere. and the filleting knife snapped off in the first one's head, which was our only gear failure of the entire trip -- thankfully, david brought a lot of knives.
so somehow we managed to get them killed and cleaned and and then tidied up the double-murder scene (tuna blood is much darker than the mahis was, much more like human blood -- ick) without waking either tim or mouse up -- and david then set about turning a big chunk of one of the albacores into a plate of hamachi AND an incredibly delicious bowl of ceviche -- my favorite meal of the trip!! absolutely scrumptious -- and weren't mouse and tim surprised when they woke up to such an amazing albacore feast!
noontime position on tuesday june 19: 35° 47' 2" N, 130° 2' 5" W -- our 24-hour progress was 132 nautical miles, and only 382 n.m. left to go -- we're nearly home!
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wow, crazy, i didn't know that rivet style extended into the albacore community!! check out those extensions! glad you got a picture of THAT!!!
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