Will Philippe Delamare keep his horses till the finish? 👇 Whilst we spent our time looking at the weather around Cape Horn we have not spoken much about Philippe Delamare in first place on Mowgli. The reason is that he is sailing in a very "predictable" stretch of water with steady winds. Even the French skipper in a recent blog mentioned how time seems to be stretching as it feels like an overstretched holiday. Navigation in the trades, after all the excitement, can in fact become a little boring, especially if you've sailed over 20,000 miles! Philippe is just 2700 from the finish line. He was not affected by the Doldrums and is proceeding north at stable constant speed. However, in approximately he will have to get back to work with his trade winds holiday about to finish. Just like in the south Atlantic we had the horses latitudes and the St Helena high pressure, in the north Atlantic we find a transition zone around the tropics and a high Pressure which is referred to as the Azores high, or if you are American, the Bermudan high. Just like in the southern hemisphere, the high pressure moves around the Atlantic, sometime it merges with the horses latitudes light winds sometimes it is clearly separate. To the north we have the carousel of depression originating from the north American continent and heading, at this time of the year, for Europe. Philippe will have to negotiate this transition and find the quickest path to the finish, which often involves punching through the band of light winds and hooking onto a low pressure, very much like on the way south skippers headed south till Tristan da Cunha before turning east. This is the last potentially very slow stretch for Philippe before routing towards A Coruna. Once north of the tropical calms, easterly or northeasterly winds are absolutely unseasonal and almost any wind will be from a favourable sector save for anomalies. https://lnkd.in/dEG3iH-A
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Riccardo Tosetto and Francois Gouin's progressed hampered by light winds 👇 Riccardo Tosetto and Francois Gouin must feel that the route to the north is a an ever changing target, large areas of tropical calms have hampered their progress moving around and repeatedly blocking the route for one or the other skipper in turn. The frustration must be palpable as all attempts to reach the stable SE trades have been sabotaged by light winds so much so that the two skippers' route appears almost erratic, but is just a reflection of the difficulty in finding a winning strategy in an ever changing forecast. Hopefully they will find more stable conditions in the next few days. https://lnkd.in/g26AJWPD
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