20 Years Ago Today -- May 2, 1996 -- Day 24

Thurs. 96-05-02 - Day 24 - 3° 02' S  133° 38' W  Log: 2,190nm

Shitty weather. Hot, squally. Yanked the trolling generator off its mount in a squall; luckily there was a safety line on it, but we now can't use it again. Ran engine for a few hours to generate power.

Still very tired, but felt somewhat better after a 2 hour nap in the afternoon.

Finished my letter to my sister by moonlight on my first watch, although it clouded over. Virtually full moon made the night bright like a dark day, even with cloud cover.

Caught at 30" wahoo on my second watch, between rain squalls. Ugly sucker -- really skinny, with nasty pointed mouth and 3 big teeth (plus lots of razor-sharp small ones). Decided to keep this one and try to get a meal out of it. Stayed on watch a couple of hours extra to clean the fish after daylight. Bony down the outside of its body, just inside the skin. I cut a few steaks, as recommended, but they were too small. Cut some fillets from the rest of it, leaving the skin (and bones) on.

No CDs. Started reading Frederick Forsyth's The Fist of God, a novel about the Desert Shield/Desert Storm war in the Persian Gulf. No lottery.