Half way!!

My previous post said Day 6. My wife correctly reminded me today is Day 9 and the last post was Day 8. Semantics!

Almost another record but it’s a little sneaky. 243nm but over 25hrs. The clock changed again. It seems it is changing pretty fast in these parts of the world. But another epic day sailing. Very stress free and unmemorable. Just the way we like it.

So what’s the story about these flying squid. Well every morning around 5-6am I’ll do an inspection around the boat. It’s also this time of the day I clean the deck of sometimes dozens of squid and flying fish. Now I get how flying fish get marooned on our deck but somebody please help me understand how the squid get here. We do get some spray over our gunnels at times but hardly enough to warrant squid being tossed with it. We’ve found a few squid Right up on the flybridge which is 4-5m above the sea. So I’m dumbfounded and have no answer. We experienced the same thing crossing the Atlantic and vowed to Google when I got internet but clearly forgot. Now I’m back wondering the problem.

Another wildlife problem is the nocturnal gals who hunt at night. They actually prey predominantly on these little squid 🦑 I’m talking about. The problem with these little fritters is the have a huge appetite and with a big appetite comes a need to digest and release regularly. Well after a few nights watching these terrors shit all over my boat and sails I conjured up a solution. They used our navigation lights on the bow of our boat and the disturbance of the bow to hunt the squid. So I changed the setup. I turned off my navigation lights completely (in fairness we have only seen one other boat in 9 days) and turned on my underwater blue lights at the stern. Well you’ll be dammed. All the gulls came to the back and ate and then poohed behind our boat. A win for humanity.

Now the question I pose is it not possible these gulls are dropping the squid on my boat?