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Purrr-fect - Leg three - Day Two -- Purrrfect Fish Tales



Day Two continued with moderate winds and wonderful downwind sailing with double head sails (2 jibs winged out and no main). The last day and a half has been the type of sailing you dream about, sun, relatively smooth seas and good enough wind. Now that it is evening and the wind moved a bit north, we have a reefed main and reefed single jib, and we continue to make progress toward Portugal. Seeing only 630 miles to go seems really "close", after the last leg of over 1800 miles.

Dave was a happy fisher today because he caught a nice size tuna which I fixed for dinner with mustard sauce and fresh yummy tomatoes from the Azores fresh market.

Last night at sunset (around 9 pm) he went to take in the line and found a fish swimming along merrily at the end. We guess we were going so slow that the fish could swim along and didn't take up any line. After getting the fish on the back step, the fish came alive and wiggled himself off the hook. But our freezer is still full with the big tuna caught several days ago that it was OK to give one back to the sea.

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