I am waiting for Bob's engine room check report. He is washing up the lunch dishes. The big news of the day is that I caught a fish. Kind of small Dorado, about 3 pounds. He was great for lunch. Hal baked it for about 13 minuets, with a little lemon and salt. Very nice with noodles. The other news is that we have a small bird on the back deck. Bob thinks it might have a broken wing. Hal just took it a bowl of water. I will try to get a photo, and send it along. The bird did not even more, when I went out on the back deck to pull the fish in. We will all hope for the best, maybe he just wants a ride to Mexico. Speaking about rides, we have had a lot of rolling, twisting today. It started out this morning with swells from the shore, witch is only 20 miles away. Then about noon, it all dies down, and know it is from off shore, and just behind the beam. We do fine most of the time, but slide off every 100 swell, of so and slide down into the trough. Or the wave hits the stern and we do a pirouette on top of the swell. Quite a ride, with the nose up in the air and you hear the load change on the engine. All aboard doing very good, except maybe for the bird. I am on watch know so I must pay attention know. Bob is back up, and he says we are still spinning a little water off the packing gland. We will have to add it to the list of things we keep an eye on. More later. Wayne Almquist Aboard Que Linda