Largely uneventful trip so far. The wind picks up during the night, then eases during the day. Yesterday it got as far as slightly ahead of the beam and went very light, but filled back in slowly.

Much fun was had just as dusk approached. The rod suddenly started paying out line, and we realised we had hooked up on one of the hand lines too. Nina landed a nice yellowfin on the hand line, whilst I worked on the rod. We lost that fish though, and then realised we had a 3rd hook up on the other hand line. Finally, just as Nina went to recover the original hand line (which had been redeployed whilst the other fish was being dealt with), we got a 4th hookup and the 3rd one we landed. All 3 were yellowfin, and thats out bag limit for the day! A team effort with lots of things going on, including a sail change and avoiding a fishing boat whilst we landed and cleaned the fish.

My watch now, and we’re just a few hours from the Pelsaert group of islands. We’ll arrive just after dawn which gives us light to see as we work our way down to the bottom end of the island we want to anchor at...