Traveling Light - Dead Calm, The Fishing Line is out

Sunday  May 5, 2013  10:00 am Dead Calm, The Fishing Line is out Soo  much for predicting the future especiallywhen wind is involved. Contrary to all predictions and our expectations the windshifted to east and eventually died down overnight. We took the spinnaker downaround 11:00 pm and started motor sailing towards our course. It rained a littlebit and the air got quite humid and hot. We switched watch at 3:00 am to givethe Skipper an extra hour of sleep for the time lost during the sail change.After a fitful sleep I woke up to a dead calm with the ocean around us flat as aglass surface shimmering in the light of the early morning sun. The fishing lineis out but so far there is no action to report. If we ever catch one you will bethe first one to hear. I am not really. read more...