Georgetown -- finally!

3.11.13 Yesterday, we pulled up anchor before dawn and motored out towards Little Farmers. The wind was supposed to be nonexistent that day, but had decided that after the many mishaps we had been having, an uneventful day of motoring was just fine with us. We made good time and had hit the cut out into the Ocean by 0900. We had a very boring day of motoring ahead of us - it would take about 11 hours to get there. We were both anxious to get there, and the motoring proved more boring than we had anticipated. Luckily, around 1100, we had a fish hit one of our poles! It was a mad scramble to get to the pole, get the dog downstairs and get everything cleared out of the cockpit so that we could bring the fish on board. While I was taking care of all that, Brad was reeling the fish in. In our excitement, we had stopped communicating and suddenly, we were spinning in circles because neither one of us was at the helm! Luckily, we made a quick recovery and Brad made short work of bringing the fish to the boat. I took over the pole and Brad gaffed the fish and brought him in to the cockpit. It was a beautiful 3 foot mahi! We were so excited! We have been dying to catch a mahi since we first started fishing on our boat. I took over the helm while Brad filleted him and and then I was on cleanup duty - somehow I think I got the worse end of that deal. We had so much fish! We decided not to even put more lines back in because we didn't even know how we were going to eat what we already had! The rest of the day was slow going and uneventful, but we made it to Georgetown before nightfall and had the anchor down in our favorite anchorage off Monument Beach just in time to head over to St Francis for drinks with friends! We had a great night and were so excited to be back with friends. Today, we met up with our friends on Necesse, who have two young daughters. We had agreed that we would bring the fish if they would cook. We had a great dinner together and then the boys went to poker night while the girls stayed home and hung out on the boat. Brad came in second in the tournament! He was so excited! It has been a great start to our Georgetown time and we are glad to finally be back.