20th June 10.00. Fishy escapes again

Just lost another perfect grillsized fish. Flip flip splish splash goes the
fish, off off goes the hook. Oh well, so it goes. Squall went through
earlier as well, high tech water catching time. This is how.. 1 reef in the
main and lift the topping lift a bit so the boom goes up and the sail goes a
bit baggy. At the mast tie a funnel under the boom going into an empty 5l
water container, the water goes down the sail, runs along the little sort of
trough made in the sail by the reef, through the funnel into the water
bottle. Just got about 3 litres lovely fresh drinking in a short shower. I
must look exceptionally sophisticated walking around the deck naked in the
rain with bits of string and funnels. Such is the life of an ocean sailor.
Wind even lighter now and gone round slightly to the south which
unfortunately means chief helmsman Commander Aries the windvane has having a
few problems keeping course. Another day tied to the tiller, that would be a
bit dull. Though seems to have settled down about 335deg, wrong side of
north but better than steering by hand. Last nights´weatherfax showed more
of the same, massive high pressure right across southern part of north
Atlantic, if I can just sneak up to the top edge of that.... Winds blow
clockwise round highs in the northern hemisphere, anticlock around lows. But
who knows, today I motor.
12.00. Days run 61 miles. Slowly slowly but north we go.