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Jasmine - Day 16



Today is a special day in the Hodder household with both Carol and Paul celebrating birthdays . We intend to mark the occasion with Mike by raising a glass of champagne here on board Jasmine and sending our best wishes to them just before dinner .

Now we are 574 nautical miles from our destination and the forecast at last looks promising . if its correct we should carry our wind the whole way to St Lucia .

Today we saw a long tailed tropic bird and it fished around the boat for awhile .We saw it dive from on high twice . Both times successfully . Unlike the gannets and the booby it hovers hawk-like before stooping .

We have not been as effective at fishing . Last night Mike got something on our hand line and with great difficulty hauled it to within ten feet of the stern at which point it got off the hook . The same happened just now with the rod , we caught something big that took Jox Mike and myself ten minutes to wind in 50 metres , and even with the reel brake on full the catch was stealing line from us ,30 metres from the boat and breaking the surface it cast the hook .We could do with some fish , food reserves for dinner are low .

All well and still talking to one another .




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