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26/11/2010
Blue Nights - Day 4 - Success!!
Four days of beautiful spinnaker sailing on the luxury racing vessle Blue Nights. Sailing in a average of 10 knots of wind and 8 knots of speed Blue Nights crew caught a 20 kg Mahi Mahi and have been enjoying sushi, cheviche and other mouth watering delicates last days. After two days sailing through low pressure frontier at maximum 27 knots of wind Blue Nights crew have today taken warm showers, done the laundry, swimmed at the ocean and relaxed under bimini. Now is the New York strip steak and red wine given by our good italian friend Andrea (dr. dre) casa vinicola Botta. After the dinner follows the movie night.Blue Nights is prepared for another racing day..
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03/12/2010
Blue Nights:2 - Fish:0... Bring on the Wasabi!!!
L-R: John, Jacopo, Mike, Kalle, Dave, Tea... Perfect timing... The arrival of the 7th guest for dinner, just in time for our 1/2 way, invitation only, dinner party. And, with no invitation, the Wahoo was religated to instead be the main course... Fish -2.
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04/12/2010
Blue Nights - Sword Fight!!
Soft steedy winds caresed the luxury racing vessle Blue Nights late in the afternoon of the 3rd of December. Under asymetrical kite, sailing 7-8 knots the afternoon looked lazy, how wrong we would be. The reel growled to life as the pole doubled over, like a bad scene from jaws the boat seemed to be pulled backwards..... The monster leap out of the ocean, I looked at the concerned captain Dave and said " we are going to need a bigger boat". The hours seemed to turn into days as the fish parried with us. Spectacular leaps, lightening fash runs, the fish circled the boat like a fat kid at a buffet, probing for any weakness in the défense. The pole man John battered and bruised from the pole brought the fish along side, sail tie in.
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