We haven't had much company the past few days, but each night birds fly alongside us for hours at a time. It looks like they might be fishing in the light thrown by our running lights. This morning one of them rested on our bow for a few minutes.
We had another visitor this morning. Just before dawn, I noticed a light on the horizon that wasn't showing up on our radar. It didn't look like the light of a ship. Then I saw their bow wake in the reflection of the light on the water and realized that it was a small boat heading towards us quickly. With every modern pirate story I've ever read racing through my mind, I woke Sten, who took my spot in the cockpit and watched three guys in a small open fishing boat pass just astern of us. As they headed away from us, we both experienced a big adrenaline dump. About two hours later, the Virgen Maria II was back, tending its longlines and making sure that we didn't get fouled up in them.
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