New Sport - Extreme BBQ'ing!
Yesterday the whole crew spotted one adolescent humpback whale. It breeched a few times just 0.5nm from our port side. Jonathan had been on 'wild-life' watch and was rewarded after 40mins of gazing at the horizon. At this point Clare made a timely observation – that she and I would only spot more wild life if we spent more time looking for it! So I volunteered to sit on the seat at the bow for a couple of hours of sunbathing…… oops I meant wild-life spotting!
Last night a new sport was invented on board ASOLARE – extreme BBQ'ing! Dad, sporting lifejacket and with a lifeline securing him to the aft deck, noted that BBQ'ing at 45degrees must be considered one of the most extreme of on-board sports requiring the use of both hands to keep the food on the grill whilst maintaining near perfect balance and displaying the total calm and confident image one would expect from the Skipper!
Clare's revelation about spending more time looking for wildlife could equally be true for catching fish – thus we have had a slight change in our tactics! Like any respectable yacht in a race we have spent our time watching and tweaking sails in order to remain competitive and engine free – and to great success having only claimed 40mins of Engine time so far. However we have failed to catch a fish – which is rather disappointing! Initially we told our selves that we were going far to fast to catch a fish – but we speak to other yachts daily who have no problem and even grumble that they 'caught yet another Dorado and did anyone know how to catch tuna'. So yesterday afternoon we took some advice from Jonathan on yacht AQUALUNA and Jeremy on ASTRA suggesting that weight on the line and distance behind boat was not important – but using a squid lure skipping across the surface with a hook far back might work. So at first light this morning we deployed our latest attempts at attracting a fish – squid lure with a flying fish that landed itself on-board last night! Our Tactic change caught us a fish – but now we need to improve our 'Landing a fish' tactics! See photo of the one that got away!
Finally the gauntlet was laid to yacht NOOKA who slowly caught us up during the night. The 2 skippers exchanged pleasantries and chatted about the weather. Both yachts have 4 crew on board and both have lost our Parasailor and are currently racing on white sails. So for the moment the Race is no longer against the 242 other yachts – but against the one yacht we can see – and the Skippers have agreed to buy the winning crew some beer in St Lucia.
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