During the night we had a number of squalls come through and some fairly steep seas, not particularly comfortable down below. In the morning there were still a number of clouds about with the sun appearing occasionally. We needed to run the engine out of gear last night to charge up the batteries so we took the opportunity today of having a shower with hot water. As we had now run out of fresh meat we put out the fishing lines to try and catch a fish for supper.
I got an email from my son in the UK to say that his wife Nikki had had a baby girl, I am a grandad! Congratulations to Charlie & Nikki.
At lunch time, David went down to make us some wraps, at the same time a squall came through which Dobby could not cope with so the mainsail tried to gybe, the next minute before we could get the boat back on track the fishing reel started to run out, we had caught a fish. The cockpit became a bit manic with everything going on all at once..! Lunch got delayed whilst we organised ourselves and the fish was filleted and cut up for the fridge. In the afternoon, the seas got bigger and the wind was getting more squally so we put in another reef. Jeremy and Nicole made a fantastic meal with part of the fish we had caught. As we went into the night watches, the sea was a little unpredictable, Jeremy took a green one coming over the back of the boat!