Becalmed again last night, and sat drifting in big NW swells while Tim made a yummy dinner from our freshly caught Albacore Tuna! It was a beautiful fish. Tim had never caught one of these before. It definitely tasted different than the yellowfin we're used to eating. Didn't have the energy to roll sushi but had some sashimi. Raw, the meat was so melt in your mouth and silky, good dipped in wasabi and soy. Then Tim seared some, and cooked it reminded me of canned tuna! I plan to make fresh tuna salad today. We motored again yesterday, keeping a watch from the bow to ensure we didn't run over any large floating lines or nets. We're also keeping an eye out for the glass japanese fishing buoys... we passed a few earlier before we realized it might be cool to grab one to have as a keepsake of our time becalmed in the pacific! On bow watch we've both been enjoying sitting up there, perched on top of the overturned dinghy, listening to our favorite tunes on the earphones. It a sweet feeling to be cruising through the glassy ocean out here in the middle of it, but sad when you look around and see plastics floating. Some patches have lots of debris, but mostly we're just seeing the odd buoy or masses of line, or little bits of small plastic stuff. Don't think we're right in the pacific *gyre* where the bulk of the plastics are, but still sad to see what we've seen, and worrisome from the standpoint of motoring through it. That's why we chose to drift becalmed at night, since we can't keep a watch for the lines that could foul our prop and harm our engine.
Todays forecast sounds like we will hit the favorable westerly winds later today, the wind has already picked up again (in the middle of the night actually we got up and raised sail) so we're moving along towards Ensenada right now. If the winds pick up as forecast, we're going to have LOTS of wind to speed us along, maybe we can reach Ensenada in about a week. Been enjoying the solitude of the quiet moments when we're becalmed or sailing slowly along. It'll be quite a difference when we get back into heavy winds.
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