Whitbread - Whitbread Log Day 3 Big Bites
We've been putting out the fishing lines around dawn and dusk each day in
the hope of catching something fresh to put on the bbq. However the fish
that took our lure and snapped the 150lb line we would probably have
struggled to bring onboard with a hand reel! The second lure we reeled in
had a little nibble taken out of it including the hook, might be lucky next
time.
Still gybing our way downwind in this Easterly F5, be nice if it went one
way or the other to give us a more favourable tack to our waypoint off the
coast of Columbia. However as it is shaping up we might be able to on our
next gybe head straight to Colon - we shall see.
Beginning to see a lot more traffic heading towards the Panama Canal the
shadows on the horizon are soon upon you. A tanker today came within a half
mile the 'Sea Pearl' who didn't seem to want to answer us on the VHF. A
German cruise ship 'Aida' was more friendly though and gave us their latest
weather forecast aswell.
It was sad to hear on the daily SSB net of the St Lucian fishing vessel that
had caught fire and sunk and we hope the attempts to find the remaining crew
are a success.
Lyall
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