Sunday Island – Mindelo Cp Verde to Bequae Caribbean Day 12

> Winds have now died off completely. Mainsail is down and we are motoring towards Barbados and then on towards Bequae. Dolphins this morning much to everybody’s delight, and a few smaller fishing vessels in the area. >
> In the afternoon we caught a good sized tuna, which put up a nice fight before we landed it on deck. Unfortunately as we were finishing the cleaning we observed some worms in the meat. Whilst I was keen to freeze it and cook it well on the bbq, everybody insisted I throw it back overboard. Later in the afternoon I saw some large tuna jumping around the boat, but unfortunatily none took a fancy to our lure. >
> We are starting to see a few smaller fishing boats, they look like steel tuna boats, about 30 ft long and painted blue and white. We are still 200nm from Barbados so they are a fair way offshore to catch the big fish. >
> Most of the afternoon was spent sorting through remaining food to clear some space in the saloon cupboards and remove the extra food storage boxes from the saloon. While sorting the food we gave the bilges and cupboards a good clean, another job ticked off that we would normally do on arrival after a long voyage. >
> Kids were kept busy re building their Lego. Max and Issy are getting very good at building from the plans that we kept, and it keeps them entertained for hours, with the occasional help from Mum or Dad to find that missing piece. >
> We began to measure up the material for the awning but found we did not have enough to make the awning the size we want, so will use the material that we were given to make up cushion covers instead. I found some webbing onboard that we can use to repair the old awning until we can have a new “Taj Mahal” awning made. Due to the sorting of food and bilges taking longer than we expected the awning sewing repairs will need to wait until tomorrow. >
> The wind has returned this evening, however it is shy off the bow but slowly swinging to the north. Hopefully in the next few hours the wind will be at a suitable angle for us to resume sailing. >
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