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Tantalizing

Tantalizing

Tantalizing

Tahiti is tantalizing close as our time in the trades draws to a close.

There’s some complex weather ahead signalling the end of the SE trades. In about a week’s time, we’ll be facing the transition the trades to the westerlies that sweep around the world south of the 5 great capes. It is this transition that has us going easterly.

Forecasts show that beneath a ridge of high pressure there is a compressed band of SSE winds in the 20-30 knot range. If I can stay east of the ridge a bit, I would get some relief from these winds. Crossing the ridge well to the east of Pitcairn gives me more favourable conditions for a course south and east to the Horn. That’s my thinking and current plan.

These clouds won’t be with us very much longer. They’ve become familiar friends, much like the clouds I grew up with on the prairies in southeastern Saskatchewan. In the distance, you can see some clouds with turret-like structures. These are my favourites: cumulus castelanus. Castles in the sky.

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