Author: Pam
After the day we had on Friday we have spent the past two days settling in and accepting our altered situation. Saturday presented us with a beautiful sunny day, yippee it was all about how much solar power we could make. It was a really good day for charging the batteries from our friend the sun. Sunday on the other hand was cloudy and dreary and produced less than half the power of the day before. Up til now we were thankful for those cloudy moments, now we would personally blow on the clouds to move them along. Not that the wind isn’t doing a great job, it is amazing how quickly the clouds skate across the sky. These days the sun is our friend and when the needle on the amp meter is between 4 and 10 we are thrilled. Another adjustment has been the weaning off of our refrigerator. First of all when you are cruising in the tropics they say you can’t necessarily depend on your refrigerator, but so far on this passage ours had been working great. We have spent the past two days at mealtime deciding whether we would eat something from the refrigerator or not. We did not fish on Saturday, due to the need to eat something from the refrigerator. Friday night had felt like one of those if only we could order a pizza days, unfortunately Dominos does not deliver to this latitude. So, on Saturday night we made pizza for dinner, who needs Dominos anyway. We did fish on Sunday: Fish 3, Tournesol 0. We are beginning to think there is more chance of catching fish in the Southern latitudes. Kon Tiki was practically overrun with fish of every kind. So, maybe things will change once we cross the equator. Speaking of sea life I wake up every day hoping we will be visited by porpoise, whales or dolphins. We hear stories all the time of how they come and play off your bow (we even experienced it leaving SF), but if they have come we have missed them. Instead we continue to be visited by one or two birds daily, it figures they would find us or me rather 1000 miles in the middle of nowhere. In fact we think they may be hitchhiking at night on the boat and going off to fish during the day. It is ok with me if they hitch a ride as long as they stay up on the bow and out of sight. On Sunday we were basically slugs. It was cloudy and our new situation was at its peak of sinking in. We took turns sleeping throughout the day, we really didn’t have much energy to do anything including eat. We had a zone bar for breakfast, ramen for lunch and went to bed with no dinner. We considered the ham from the refrigerator, it smelled ok, tasted ok and probably was ok, but we chickened out and fed it to Nemo. We thought it might help our fishing luck, ahhh no. We discussed later in the day how much the weather seemed to affect our energy and spirits. It was an amazing contrast between Saturday and Sunday, sun versus clouds. Hopefully Monday will bring more sun and more power for Tournesol.
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