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Oh, excuse me Cabin boy! May I please have another aperitif with my caviar? Shall we sup on the foredeck this evening? Mmm... Quite. Rather. Ho hum. Splendid. Yes, you think, this is the world we live in, one of decadence, ease, lollipops and gumdrops.
Except not. Well, not at least this week. Not as we beat North West up the coast of Brazil. Our route around the world is largely dictated by weather, and by weather, we really mean wind. Where can we sail with the least amount of effort and stress, greatest amount of ease and comfort. That, friends is from east to west, mostly between 20 degrees South and 20 degrees North, in the Trade Winds. If you've been following our path lately, you'll know that recently we crossed from the Southern Hemisphere into the Northern Hemisphere. Wooo whoo!!! Yup, another milestone. So with that crossing, we also entered the Northern Hemispheres trade winds, aka the North East trades. Funnily enough, these apt named winds generally blow from the North East through to East. Well, as luck would have it this week atmospheric forces aligned such that they were shifted more to the North than East... what does that mean for the good ship Khulula and her hearty crew? Well, it means our course is an awful lot like beating.... Read the full story on the OceanGybe website....
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