Travels on God Spede: Fish Photos

What the?!?

Jeff, Fred and I are sailing the God Spede, from Seattle around to Cape Cod the long way.

Our extremely vague itinerary currently includes the South Pacific, New Zealand, then Australia or Thailand, the Red Sea, the Mediterranean, Ireland and the Caribbean, but the fact is that the plan changes from day to day.

This blog will be where we tell our salty tales as we sail along.

In 2008 we made it from Seattle to New Zealand via French Polynesia, Niue and Tonga. So far we're all in one piece and still speaking to one another.

Sunday, January 9, 2011

Fish Photos

Here are some photos of the barracudas we caught at Sipoko Island in the Solomon Islands. The big one was our Christmas Eve and Christmas dinner. I was surprised how delicious it was. Somehow I expected barracuda to be oily like mackeral, but it wasn't. I'd say it was very much like wahoo, but with a texture slightly more like grouper.

I may have said this before, but the big one required special effort to land. We hooked it while we were trolling from the dinghy, then Jeff fought it as we drove the mile back towards the boat, then Fred jumped from the dinghy back onto the sailboat as we made our first pass by and grabbed the gaff, then as we made another pass by in the dinghy Fred gaffed the fish while standing on the sailboat. It was an amazing effort on the part of both guys!!!