Dec 18

Our position at 1200 UTC today was 18 10.6 N, 54 18.7 W; course 278 magnetic. We are 2334 miles out of Las Palmas with 432 to go to Antigua. Made 174.3 miles in last 24 hours for 7.26 knot average. ETA at current speed is 2400 UTC Tuesday, 2000 local time. Wind NE15 Seas 2-3 meters still on stern quarter. Weather good with a few showers. Had several strikes and fish on but nothing in the boat. One fish jumped a lot and Dave identified it as a long-billed spearfish of about 50 pounds. At the same time we hooked another big fish that we think was a tuna, but it got away too. One other large fish escaped, perhaps another tuna.

Teka III crew