Wind and Sun and Fishing

Yes, I am fishing. I got the urge this morning to figure out how to get a line in the water from the comfort of the cockpit and after a bit of head scratching got it sorted out. Now all we need is a nice Mahi-Mahi for dinner (hahaha). So far my record fishing since we left Canada is fish 2, Brian 0. I did hear some sage advice from a fellow cruiser awhile ago that will help my fishing immensely. Apparently you actually have to put the hook into the water, go figure. I kept hoping for one to just jump into the cockpit and nicely expire. I'm not sure what kind of fish we can possibly get as we are sailing at 5-6 knots, it will have to a pretty quick one. We had a light wind day Sunday afternoon and night but winds started to fill in again yesterday and we spent most of the day under full canvas. We reefed down as it got dark to mizzen and genoa as the winds came up a bit. We still averaged between 5-6 knots so all is good. We are getting little anxious about the weather as it looks to start going light in the next day or two so we are trying to get as many miles under the keel as possible. At our current rate, we will make Niue at dusk on Thursday, not great but not too bad. We will able to contact Niue Radio via SSB when we get close and hopefully get assigned a mooring. The other idea is that we will get to Niue Friday morning, which either means slowing down on purpose or getting slowed down by the weather. Regardless we will get there when we get there. It turns out that the boats that went north to Suwarrov sailed through a shear line, with reported winds to 45 knots. They are still getting 30 plus knots around Samoa. There was a bit of damage reported from the boats, one cracked mast from a knock down, one broken boom and torn sails. We are sailing in almost ideal conditions here and are glad we decided NOT to go north to the Samoa's.

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