Everythings happenning!

After a couple of really peaceful days, nature decided to put us through our
paces ! I started with a collection of rain squalls which surrounded us. As
we had not yet caught any water, or enjoyed showering in the rain, we were
quite looking forward to a bit of rain! It came as it so often does , with a
little hooly, but we had reefed in anticipation! The rain and drissle stuck
around for a few hours, ut the wind dropped to zero! Becalmed ! We needed to
charge batteries ,so we motored for 2 hours, by which time the evening
breeze had started to fill in. Up with the pole ,and off we go! As the
clouds cleared, and darkness arrived, we were later than usual with our
happy hour and sups. Suddenly two ships lights appear on the horizon, but
neither showed as AIS targets. One we suspect was a fishing boat, as we only
picked it up on radar at 5 miles, and it looked like a xmas tree with all
the lights. The second was a huge radar taget which we could see at 12.5
miles, but no AIS image. Possibly a tanker approaching the oil terminals? At
about 11pm, the wind suddenly jumped to 25/27 knots, and we were wing on
wing with full main and genoa poled out. I just headed straight downwind ,
pushing Freds buttons like a slot machine addict, making sure that we
were'nt caught offsides by any of the wind shifts. It only lasted half an
hour, and then died. Twenty minutes later, the wind switches from SE to NE,
necessitating a gybe, and new course. In the morning watch, I discovered
that my fishing lines had got into the worlds greatest ever tangle, and at
the end of it all was a useless snake mackeral, and one missing lure! It was
cut and ditch stuff!I can only speculate that something large hit the one
line , and caused a serious mess!
We managed another 131 nm day , and now have 497nm to Ihla Grande. At
present we are heading for a waypoint between two sea mounts, before easing
of towards our cabo frio offshore wp outside the oil field. The NE sea has
built up an annoying swell which is tossing us around, and we are both
looking forward to a bit of peace and tranquility in a few days time! Our
pos at 13.00(utc-2) is 20,02.6S,36,15W.