how heavy is it ?
It's about 15 kilos right ? Last time on SAILING JOY we caught the biggest tuna of Our Lives !
Today we continue the crossing towards the island of Sardinia in Italy it will
be two more days and three nights in total before we arrive after all the
fishing action during the day the time flew by and before long it was dark around here
tonight we have full moon which makes it super special because we can see everything around
it is almost like it is daylight and to take full advantage of it it's a matter
of having no lights on Joy and our eyes were adjusted very quickly to the darkness
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and when we hear this noise we know we caught something unfortunately this one got away
you were setting up our fishing pole once again a big turtle swimmed by JOY to say hello
very often we see turtles dolphins and some big fish by Joy I believe
it's the fact that we spend a lot of time up there on the fly bridge
which is pretty high up and helps us to spot them all in the ocean
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as we divided it all up and put into the freezer now this is the thing that we do
after catching the tuna and before cleaning up we try to get as much
of the blood of the fish out then we lay it and freeze into small portions
for both of us and only then eat it the results is incredible tasteful sashimi
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two locations for us to sleep we do take shifts of two hours each and we like to
be close to each other while we are on shift so around here it's still pretty
warm in the evening so I believe out here will be pretty comfortable tonight
on one side we have the sunset on the other one we have full moon
crosses like this one are so special we feel like we end up Opening Our Eyes to admire the
simplest things like a sunset that at land we end up taking it for granted 2:33 in the morning
and we are here with not much wind coming from behind of the boat we started to smell the diesel
coming from the exhaust pipes so we decided to move inside of JOY to avoid smelling it
okay it was Patricia's shift and the wind had totally died out while I was
asleep she takes care of joy and starts to feel more confident about navigating
a night although it can be intimidating in the beginning it certainly is the
time you have the opportunity to see and admire the little things along the way
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are we supposed to know and it is time to set our janaker up we have a 140 square
meter Genneker that works very well in low wind days and angles between 100 and 180
degrees meaning when coming from the middle of the boat all the way to the back of the boat
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and while Patricia warms up the bread for breakfast
I go for an outside shower, I promise myself !
breakfast
last night we had a whole lot of humidity and we had the sails up and they were like totally
drenched we had to pull the sails down in the middle of the night even the main sale because the
wind totally died out so now there's not a whole lot of wind we're almost in Sardinia and I just
put this uh the general up so it could dry before we get there because it's all Road and like moisty
and not good for the sale at all but I think in uh about seven hours we're gonna be entertaining
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so we are getting to Italy it is time to change our courtesy Flags uh removed from
Spain and put it into Italy I think I bought a very small one uh maybe got the wrong size
here I'll get another one once we get there now let's go change it goodbye
it was great to meet you Spain now to the next country which is ITALY
surprise two days already at Sea and this is the first ship we see out here
now check this out so many mosquitoes started to
appear inside of JOY I think they came from the cargo ship that just went by
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as it is very easy to lose track of time while you're doing a Crossing we try to
keep our breakfast lunch dinner routine similar in order to avoid missing meals
I can see
land looking from the front window is Sardinia It seems to be very close but
in reality we still have about four hours and I half to go and 22 additional miles
guess what is for lunch again today ?
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we were very excited to see Land once again
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now that we had a good night's sleep and energy level is back at a hundred percent
we will raise our anchor and visit the city of Algheiro here in Sicily in ALGHEIRO we
discovered that the City offers up to five nights of free parking on the city marina not bad at all
and now we start our daily anchor routine
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