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Nexus - Half Way to Salvador Bahia!



We celebrated our half way point to Salvador Bahia last night, with lamb chops, home made bread and wine for dinner! We crossed the 1000nm mark right at dinner time and were rewarded with the wind returning and pulling out the sails after a day of motoring. It's great to have a quiet boat again even if it is slow. We also marked the event by launching a "message in a bottle" from the entire crew, using a special kit given to us by our wonderful nieces and nephews when we left Georgetown! Hopefully someone will recover it someday and send us a note so we can mark it's travels! We had some fishing excitement yesterday also, we hooked a large Wahoo who fought Finnbar for about 15 minutes, pulling and jumping around like a haywire torpedo. He eventually freed himself, and when we pulled the lure back in we found he had crushed the hook in his bony jaw as the tip was bent in toward the shaft. Wahoo have a unique jaw structure with a scissor like action and strong bones, which I guess were too much for our softer hook. Frustrated, we decided to go night fishing last night. I assembled some rather unique lures with combination parts, wire leader and celulume glow sticks, which we trolled all night. We didn't catch anything, but it didn't matter because they looked totally cool! Mike watched me make them and dryly observed;" I guess necessity isn't the mother of invention....boredom is!"



Nexus 09:30 01/31/2015 at 13 13.4'S;23 07.7'W


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