Today had a lot in common with yesterday. Great sailing conditions and good speed, a nice fresh Mahi Mahi for dinner, and the same songs spinning around again on the iPhone in the cockpit.
This last we need to do something about. I’ve been introducing the kids to concepts like The Album where you had a thematically linked production like Dark Side of the Moon that you could really only listen to from start to finish. No Shuffle Play, no Play Listsif you wanted to skip The Great Gig in the Sky you had to walk across the room and move the needle or press the Fast Forward button on the cassette player.
We’ve also begun the Big Random List of songs, all the CD’s we ripped when we left are in there somewhere with all the songs that didn’t make everyone’s play list the first time around. There is still a lot of good stuff that’s been out of the rotation. And some of the less rocking but still excellent stuff that is too mellow for doing dishes or boat work certainly finds a nice groove when we’re sailing.
Tonight’s Mahi was blackened instead of lightly fried with corn meal like last night, so there was some essential difference. But everyone is in complete agreement that there is absolutely no better fish than one you caught the same day you are eating it.
The fishing out here has been pretty productive so far we only had the line in the water for an hour or two today when we decided we had enough for dinner. Which was one Mahi as long as my armbut we didn’t want to scramble everyone and disturb sleep just to fill the freezer.
Tomorrow we may or may not fish, two days of Mahi in a row is excellent but we don’t want to wear it out. We can always vacuum seal and freeze something but we all know it won’t be the same. Of course if we caught something different
