Half way
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Today we became proper fisherman. We managed, after a fairly epic 45min battle which involved a large amount of boat maneuvering and a huge amount of physical effort to pull along side the yacht, a 5 foot long, very angry, what we think is a Striped Marlin. People pay thousands of dollars to try and catch one of these so it was a bit of an honour. The power and grace of this fish was incredible. He was pulling 3 of us around the aft deck with ease and nearly had the rod bent double, he really was huge. I’ll put up the pictures and video when we have proper internet. He was far too big for us to eat and is actually an endangered species so we got him as close to the yacht as possible before cutting the hook from his mouth and releasing him.
In other news we are passed the halfway point.
Position: @ 2000 03degrees 48.0N 084 degrees 08.9W course 231 speed 8.1
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Jun 05 2011
First 24 hours
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First 24 hours into the Pacific have been quite bumpy with the wind and waves on the nose with the weather forecast suggesting it is going to stay like this all the way to Galapagos. We are now around 110nm off the coast of Panama and pushing into to a westerly current that is trying to take us away from the Galapagos. Life onboard is quite uncomfortable but at least, now that we are leaving the tropics, it is getting cooler.
We bought some new lures in Panama City to tempt some of the fabled large Tuna onto our BBQ and today we tried them out for the first time. We had 4 bites with 3 successfully brought on deck by Paul including 1 Yellow Fin Tuna, 1 Skipjack Tuna and 1 Snook. Unfortunately all were very small so they were put back to the sea to grow until next time
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Jun 04 2011