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Dala - Rock and Rolling day! Fishing day!



Hi, all,

The past day was another multifaceted pleasure:
I ended my morning watch at noon, just lo leave me enough time to finish the Horta chapter in my Azores tourist guide.
And then, delicious lunch: Anthology salad, eggplant cream, tapenade, two different styles of hummus. All this, followed by various French cheeses, fatty and greasy just as they should be. In addition, Joelle has been bold enough to make bread on board. No, not that easily done bread that any dummy can make in those bread making machines. No, I am talking about real bread delicately done in the oven, and she added into it organic chia!
After this treat, I had the easy job to make a coffee for Richard and myself, Joelle declined my offer, with an outrageously good dark chocolate. In the meantime, Joelle had started the audio on board system with excellent songs. Suddenly, at the rhythmic sounds, I was taken by the irresistible impulse to dance a Rock-and-Roll. And so, believe it or not, a few seconds later, Joelle and myself were joyfully dancing in the cockpit right in the middle of the Atlantic ocean!!!
No, worry, you'll have photos. By the way, I send you only text and no shots since we left Bermuda, because using Sailmail I have some technical problem to send pictures. But I promise you'll have plenty of them once we reach Horta (Patience: We are at this very moment breaking the 400 nautical miles mark to Horta, well into the last quarter of our crossing).
After such a physical Rock, I was taken by a sweet nap right there in the cockpit and about 20 minutes later, while I was feeling the beginning of my nap's end, I heard the typical noise of one of my fishing reels: I jumped on the rod, so hopeful to finally break this frustration of not having fished even a single fish since Bermuda.
An yes, it was here: A beautiful sailfish was on board after a nice fight, helped by Joelle.
Richard came back from his own nap and said: "How nice! But it's a pity, sailfish is not good to eat because there are too many ligaments in its flesh."
But Joelle took the challenge: She cut a few fillets from the fish and I send the rest back to the food chain. Then she grinded the fish fillets and for dinner we had perfect fish balls with a red sauce, Moroccan Jewish style!

Life's good, no?

Albert

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