Position: 29 degrees, 47 minutes north; 159 degrees, 45 minutes west 118 nm day

That’s what Ann says the huge lightning storm behind us was. I’m not going to argue as long as it’s BEHIND us. The flashes of lightning were high up in the clouds and they seemed to ricocheted from all around us.

Quite a night of pyrotechnics. The lightning storm (or Angels, etc) continued all night and culminated toward dawn with giant flashes every 5 seconds or less. Glad we weren’t there.

We also had the first night of the Persius meteor shower. It was pretty good. I saw so many I lost count, although most were not very big. OK, I know, picky, picky…

Lastly we had the wanning moon – a mere sliver by now – bashfully peeking from behind a cloud just before sun up.

Daytime-wise, it was a pretty nice day. The wind and sea finally calmed so we had a nice ride. The wind still doesn’t know where it wants to settle. I think I changed the reefs about five times today. The sun is still intense – I had to retire to the cabin for a while just to get some relief – but the temperature is not as hot and with the smoother water we can open the hatches.

During one of Ann’s watches, I got up to use the head and when I came back she was standing in the cabin smiling from ear to ear. “What!” says I sleepily. “I caught and released a small Mahi Mahi!” Someone is getting to be quite the fisherman. Turned out the Mahi was on the small side and we’d rather have a tuna. Later in the morning she hooked a tuna, but it got away. We had three other hits in the afternoon including hooking another small Mahi that I shook off. OK, cross fingers for tuna tomorrow please!