On Fri, 07 Jun 2013 19:12:45 -0400, John H
wrote:

Do you plan your trips so that every night you'll be in safe harbor?

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Ideally yes but it is not always possible. We end up making all
night runs once in a while and have even made a few 2 1/2 day runs but
always with a good reason. You have some situations where you can't
cover the needed distance between ports during the number of daylight
hours available. Rather than arrive at an unfamiliar port in the
dark, the sensible thing to do is leave in the afternoon, run all
night offshore, and arrive after sunrise next day. There have been
other situations where we had a lot of distance to cover with
problematic weather conditions. When a good weather window does open
up it pays to run with it for a few days. My wife and I are not
getting younger however and multi-day runs do take a lot of stamina.

Sounds like you need a little crew (to help eat the mahi mahi).

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We've still got some Mahi in the freezer, come on down. My wife
cooked the last of the Skipjack Tuna for dinner tonight - chunked it
up and stir fried with rice, various veggies, soy sauce and ginger.
Very tasty.