Friday night update from Phil

Date: June 12
Time: 6 PM Hawaiian time
Position:  29.109 N  (29 degrees 6.59 minutes)
              -155.091 W  (155 degrees 5.42 minutes)

After our swim this morning, we had a very fast sail going over 8.5 knots with 15 - 17 knots breeze using the large Code 0 sail. That sail has been great the last 2 days with the light wind.
Gavin was in the middle of making spaghetti and I was getting the spinnaker lines out and rigged, since the wind was shifting to nearly dead astern, when suddenly ....
Wait, let me start at the beginning.
During the last two days we have hooked 4 fish and each time our line or something else broke. In the end, we ran completely out of the line that was on the reel. So, I decided we were going to use tackle that would not break!  I got 12 feet of wire which Jared, who is a commercial salmon fisherman during the summer in Alaska, tied two loops in that he guaranteed would not break.  I got 250 feet of dyneema line and the best looking lure we had. One just like the bait taken yesterday.
.. when suddenly the reel started spinning like crazy.  15 minutes later we had a fresh Dorado on board!  Now what? It was still jumping...  Well, this was captured on video so you can see later when we post it after we return.
So the spaghetti goes into the fridge- the pasta was not yet started, and we now have Bar-B-Que'd fish, sautéed fish and fresh potatoes.

So today we had a swim party, fresh fish, made a lot of progress, and there will be white wine for dinner.  Got to go get dinner......