Daily report #104

Dear readers,

The degrees of latitude increase. Albeit painfully slow. Sailed on the motorcycle last night. Achieved an average of 4 knots with difficulty. We are experiencing more and more delays. And we wonder where we should be able to make up for that. This morning at the crack of dawn there was wind. A faint breeze on the head. The result is a slight swell and small rippling waves. The speed dropped to 3.2 knots. And then you have a bad time. You would want to lose weight with the Genoa in order to have an auxiliary sail that increases the speed somewhat. But then you're heading in the wrong direction. At least thirty degrees. Then the gain from using the wind is already canceled out by the extension of the distance you have to travel. Ultimately the wind shifted slightly and continued to increase in strength to a reasonable 10 knots, so we are currently sailing with the engine at very low power and well above 5 knots in the doldrums under full sail. Time saving! You're working on it all the time and you're really inventing some things. Normally you only go sailing when the conditions are good. I almost long for this carefreeness.
Ate a pasta tonno today. Delicious! And that for two days. For dinner a tuna salad in a wrap. What a treat.
Yesterday and today we saw those enormous light brown seaweed fields. With those stems that stick out above the water, as if a bee will come there at any moment to collect its nectar. No chance. We both saw a moth or butterfly. Hundreds of miles from land. Fluttering up and then letting itself float on the air with stationary wings. You wonder when the fuel will run out. A bit like ours. So to die on the water with your paper wings!

There are many fish under that seaweed. In the shade near their food. It's a shame that it has a name. Safer for predatory fish and probably safe for human fisherman. That seaweed also holds more plastic. You see many examples of our carelessness. But I'm afraid that's the case all over the planet.
Yesterday Mark once again demonstrated his non-existent fear of predatory fish and noticed that there is quite a bit of growth. And that is remarkable because we also inspected in St Helena and there was only some algae growth. There is too much pokon in this water or the water temperature here is very favorable for this fauna and flora. So we'll probably have to go scratching one of these days. That may take a while.

Greetings Mark and Ton