Fish on! from Graeme and Nick

Hi Kotuku followers,


Janna here. Wanted to let you know that Graeme has been writing blog posts for a blog related to his work: Light My Fire. They're the folks who make sporks and other camping gear; Graeme's company is their US distributor. Good stuff! I haven't been double posting those updates here (for the most part) but thought this one was worth sharing directly. For other content, check out the Light My Fire adventure blog. Very cool.


Here's the latest update from Graeme:
We finally found the tradewinds.  Man, it was a tough road getting here.  We have had 3 straight squally nights, with high winds and confused seas.  Then we had a patch of light wind.  Then, this morning while I was driving the clouds seemed to organize themselves into marching marshmallow men and begin an orderly tromp toward Hawaii.  The water is very warm and very blue.  The wind is a steady 18 knots.  We moved up a spot in the standings and are currently 1st in our class and 6th overall.  And this afternoon we caught a beautiful Mahi Mahi, about 6kg (13lbs.)  She put up a good fight but was no match for our seasoned crew, and we are having ceviche for happy hour and baked mango mahi for dinner.  Care to join us?  We are living the dream out here.  I think about work occasionally, wonder if people are ready for the show in Salt Lake City.  I am sure they are, or that they will be.  In the meantime, we have a bit more work to do ourselves on Kotuku.  We have tough competition in our class just waiting for us to make a mistake.  And we would like to see if we could move up another place in the standings tomorrow.  Oh, we have a lot of fresh fish to eat too.  Better get to it then!


P.S.  Savai, you were right.  Green with tassels was the winner!  Big thanks to Kevin for providing the lure in the half way box, and to Savai for selecting it.  And will someone please tell us what happened to Ichiro...traded?  To who?  For what?

Mahi Mahi!

Nick here again. Looking forward to some good eating this afternoon with the big Mahi we caught. What a beautiful fish! We have all been busy these past few days with tricky conditions and many sail changes, but everyone is still as jovial as ever. I had a good view of the sunrise this morning from the top of the mast and lots of good surfing this afternoon. We are even doing quite well in the race standings, slowly picking our way through the overall standings while holding first in our class. What an adventure we are having. Life is good, hope all is well at home.