An excellent, stress free day on the water. We are about 25 miles offshore, seem to be dodging both the fish boats and the cargo ships just fine. There still wasn’t enough wind, but at least it was from a more usable quarter. We were able to lay the rhumb line this afternoon while motor-sailing. St after radio net the fish line went zing! Zing! zing! I managed to get the boat down to 3 knots, and Captain had a fun time with what turned out to be a big wahoo. What a terrific fighter, and what scary fierce teeth it had! This certainly added some excitement to our evening. Just at dusk we came up on something that was five miles away and looked for all the world like an oil rig. No AIS, nothing on any of our charts. There were smaller boats and strange flashing red lights all around it, but no AIS. Quite disconcerting except that it was easy to see, even in the dimness of twilight time.
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