May 9, 2010 07:00.
Happy Mother’s Day ! !
After spending the night Capt Jim and the Gale spend time in the engine room troubleshooting what appeared to be a fuel and oil leak. As it turned out, we just had a little bilge water on the top of the holding tank under the engine. Gale was kind enough to put new oil sorb diapers under the engine. We also managed to get the 800 gallon per day water maker working and are happy to know we’ll be able to make plenty of water for the rest of the trip.
After we stowed the dink and pulled up the hook we headed for Nassau Bahamas.
Put out some lines and all we managed to catch today was barracuda. So we stopped fishing with bait and went to pulling some heavy lures for wahoo and tuna. After about an hour underway at 9 knots, we caught the biggest Mahi of the trip yet.
Ended up in Nassau for the night. This will be our last stop in Civilization until we reach Kingston Jamaica.