-Fishing during ATLANTIC CROSSING - SAILING the Atlantic Ocean with our Beneteau Oceanis Ep. 43

This is the Atlantic Ocean and this is us on our home Fortuna. We have lived and sailed for two years in the Met. Now we're ready for new horizons. Follow along as we prepare ourselves and our sailboat for the Atlantic Ocean. Last week we finally packed all our stuff, posted to the gods for good wind and sea and finally left harbour to cross the Atlantic Ocean. So far we have sailed over 200 nautical miles but there are still 2000 and more left. And finally the wind came. The night was a bit rougher one than the usuals we had. It was like up to 15 knots of wind but the waves were quite uncomfortable so the ship was rocking quite a lot but at the end we managed to cope well. Okay I am frustrated now. Frustrated. I am frustrated going back. Just excitement poor and pure. I actually saw the fish before but that was pretty crazy. We were just sitting here and I was just looking randomly at the line and saw this huge huge dark spot behind the line. And yeah tiny bit but unfortunately the line broke so it was probably a very very big one. It was probably a swordfish, a sailfish. It jumped twice so we saw it jumping and yeah maybe it's going to be the next time. Unfortunately we lost our best lure but it was pretty exciting at least for me. Slowly peace was coming back on Fortuna and with a perfect 15 knots of wind we were speedily coming closer to our destination in the Caribbean. Normally we cut this part out of the video but a lot of people asked how we kill our fish. We use the Ikijime method. We will put the link somewhere you can check it out. It's an old Japanese tradition which reduces the pain to a minimum and optimizes the quality of the flesh. Looks like we are on a fishy spot in the last 15 minutes. We lost two lures and got one fish of ore. Unfortunately it was our biggest and best lures. But it seems they bite on everything today so it's not too bad. But yeah let's see. At least we got one small mahi-mahi on board after losing the huge sailfish. I don't believe it. I can't believe it. It was flying. Yeah while cleaning up the mahi-mahi now this last lure exploded. We did not even see it coming but something big must have been there. And once the fishes had decided how to set up their new lures to avoid any other mistakes and losing fish and lures it was time to finally take care about our sails again. But we were not done fishing for this day. The moment we hoisted the sail we had our first and not last double bite on both lures. When we had woken up this morning we had no idea we would have three mahi-mahi on board at the end of the day. So we had already prepared some pizza dough. Meaning we were going to make our first pizza with fresh fish in it. Good morning everyone and welcome to day three. The night was super nice. We had just the right amount of wind to go speedy with 67 knots. But the wave was gentle enough so we could nicely sleep. As first action of the day we cleaned the speed meter off of tuna. We actually already wanted to do that before leaving harbour. But as you may remember the last days in harbour were a little bit tricky and messy. So we totally forgot about that. But we did it now. It functioned well and as the sun is out and the waves are not too high the captain decided to take his first shower. Give it to me. Amazing. I feel like new. A bit salty but new. And now that the captain is all new and shiny it's time to raise our new favourite tie our gennaker. So guys what an active day. I thought it was going to be boring out here but literally I'm so tired after all the eggs we already had this morning slash early afternoon. Because Greta slept until lunch. I slept until lunch because I had night shift until 7 a.m. So I'm allowed to sleep until lunch. Anyhow we washed the captain, we hissed the spinnaker, we flew the spinnaker for over an hour. We had lunch and then we had to take down the spinnaker again. Our sails are so amazing. It's crazy. We found the perfect setup especially for the night so we don't need to go forward to change the sails. So basically we're using the polled out genoa on one side and our heavy wind jib on the other side. So if the wind is changing a bit we just pearl in the genoa and can use the heavy wind jib on the other side without doing anything. Basically we don't need to go forward, we don't need to change the pole, we don't need to click out the genoa sheet. It is everything done in the cockpit safely and secure and yeah we had an awesome night. I don't know how but Michael managed to see a tuna swimming close to us and yeah the rest is history. Good morning and welcome to day five. It was a rather calm night with almost no wind and also the morning is pretty windless so we're kind of more shipping around than really sailing. But the sun is shining super super hot so we decided today it's actually time for me to finally get a wash and I finally can realize one of my dreams which is swimming here out in the middle of nowhere in the big big blue. Let's fight. Are you excited? Are you awake? You like it? And here we are freshly showered and hungry. This was truly an amazing experience. It's actually one of the reasons why I'm out here. I always wanted to go swimming in the middle of nowhere and yeah it was just a perfect experience. Nobody got hurt which is the most important part. Everybody is fine. Everybody had fun. Seeing the blue down there was so incredible. I hoped some fish would swim around but yeah could not be more perfect for now. We're really really happy and now I'm going to enjoy a nice lunch together. And also day five is slowly coming to an end and while the guys are preparing the sails for the night I am here cooking our last little piece of mahi-mahi. So hopefully tomorrow we'll fish some new fish. This was it for this week but come back next week for an angry Atlantic Ocean, more salty showers, more fishing action and all the beauty the Atlantic Ocean holds. Thank you very much for watching. Please don't forget to hit that subscribe button, leave us a comment and a like. It really helps us growing. Bye bye. See you all next week.