Leg 2, Day 7

Another great fish catch! Again a Mahi-Mahi but not quite as big, but still could not fit in the cockpit floor!

Gutting, cleaning and filleting is always quite a task with such a large fish but on this occasion we had a surprise in store as the fish’s stomach contained another large fish!

This time, having produced scores of fillets we cut the huge tail section into 15 or so vertical steaks, each about 1” (25mm) thick. We used our machete, normally used for cutting and opening coconuts, to chop through the central bone. We tested our creations this evening with a rich fish soup followed by the fish steaks nestled on a bed if spicy chopped carrots and served with sauté potatoes.

All this on an otherwise literally dull day! The wind continued very light, but for some tantalising few hours, light from behind rather than dead “on the nose”. We tried our three “white” sails in a triple goosewing, then our Gennaker with the Genoa, and finally the Gennaker with an asymmetric spinnaker. In all cases, apart from a blissful period of two hours, the wind was just too light to make any real sailing sense, but it was fun trying – very trying!

So no great photo opportunities – and when you have seen a photo of one Mahi-Mahi you have seen them all!

Instead I attach a photo taken when leaving the Las Perlas Islands of a monster rock guarding and defending the Islands!

Capt. Peter