Wednesday, April 19 Time: 1200 local
Position: 11’24 N 088’09 W
Course: 307 T Speed:11.5 kts Days run: 235 miles (20 hours)
Weather: Sunny and humid
News:
Timoneer departed Los Suenos Marina, Costa Rica at 1536 Tuesday afternoon
for the 1040 mile journey to Acapulco Mexico. The sky is clear and there
is almost no wind. Motoring at 11.5 knots the hydrodynamics of the keel
give the boat only a slight rolling motion in the long low Westerly swell.
Bevan and Kent have pulled out all the stops in an effort to catch some
billfish, acquiring some ballyhoo (halfbeak) bait fish from the sport
fisherman in Los Suenos. Ballyhoo are small fish into which you insert
hooks and attach leaders for trolling. Both rods are set up with the
ballyhoo, to attract fish we are also towing two “teasers” which are big
lures with no hooks trailed close behind the boat to attract fish.
Unfortunately as of noon today we have had only one strike which was gone in
a split second. Generally there has been plenty of wild life as we have
seen lots of dolphins, and about half a dozen turtles floating on the
surface. Some of the turtles are quite large with shells 4-5 foot in
diameter. This morning Penny, Annette and Brit have been cleaning the
interior and Kent and I are sewing a repair on the mizzen luff tape.
Everyone on board is well.
