Today was a slow, very slow, day without much wind. We motored for 2 hours to recharge the batteries, make some water and cover a few miles.

The water making did not work very well because one of the pumps failed. We tried to fix it a few times, got water (ocean water!) everywhere. While the skipper was fighting with the watermaker, another battle was happening on the other side of the boat. Bob had just caught a big Mahi-Mahi (estimated 12 pounds). We managed to bring the fish to the swim step but the fish went away and all was left was blood everywhere… On the race net we reported as having voluntary let the fish go. I don’t think that anybody bought our story! In any case we have pictures!

The weather is supposed to stay (too) calm for the next 2 days. This is bad because we were doing quite well so far. We get some squalls in the evening with a little bit of wind. We are at exactly the latitude of San Diego but with a very different weather. Since we are about 16 degrees farther east than Southern California, we have gained one hour od day light in the evening.

We see a lot of trash in the water. We are not sure if this is related to the tsunami in Japan a couple years ago. So far the biggest item was a 55-gallon drum.