March 20
We're sailing along with light air, motored a few hours today but generally we've had enough air to sail, just not too fast! So with 614 miles to go we're probably looking at 4 days with the light air.
We haven't caught a single fish - we didn't fish for a long stretch (after a really big fish stripped our reel before we even got the genoa furled!) but we've been fishing most of the past several days without a single bite. We don't fish while we have the spinnaker up or while we have the whisker pole out as it would take too long to drop the sails and head up if we got a fish. Lee is determined to get a fish on this leg so I expect he'll have the lines out for most of the next few days.
We have been doing lessons, and the girls have been doing a little cross stitch (Sam) and needlepoint (Sarah) - they aren't proficient yet so I end up working back and forth helping both of them and keeping them on track. Lee and I have also read an entire bag full of books and magazines to give away when we hit land. Time to read the cruising guides and figure out what we really want to do while we're there.
The girls have been able to identify the Southern Cross in the sky. The stars are so bright away from land, especially when there's no moon.
Pauline