Windleblo - Day Five

Our high on catching the dorado has sunk to a low over losing two lures. The fish that took them must have been big as the lines were bit clean through. Undaunted, the fisherdudes (John and Coach) are responding with stronger wire leaders. We continue to troll.

Based on the latest weather info, we've turned south to go around a stubborn low trough to the west. The current strategy is to keep south until closer to 15 degrees north, then curve west and go around the bottom of the trough. Our fellow Coloradoan, Steve of the boat Aspen, offered some longer term weather forecasts on the SSB net today, which supports this decision. We also sent an email to Chris Adams, our sailing buddy in the UK, requesting his assessment of the weather situation. We hope Chris can act as our informal "weather router" going forward. Many thanks to Steve and Chris for sharing their synopsis of the weather forecasts.

Despite all this strategy, we continue to experience calm, overcast conditions. We pass the time with reading and crafts -- Joules is reading a book about an energy black out across Europe and John is teaching Coach calligraphy. Motoring into the night, we again made the best of it, turning the cockpit into a sort of drive-in theater by setting up a movie on the laptop perched atop the companionway slider, complete with Bose surround sound. Tonight's feature? World War Z, a story of zombie apocalypse. Tomorrow, Joules will confess to nightmares.