A King's Trade by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781788636421
Publisher: Canelo Books
Published: 2019-06-26T00:00:00+00:00

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The fortuitous winds abated, at last, shifting back to Sou’east, forcing the trade to steer wider to the Sou’west, but they had logged nearly 600 nautical miles, mostly at due South, more than a quarter of the total passage, placing the convoy and its escorts more Easterly to Africa, and even sailing six points off the wind they would only skirt the edge of the Doldrums, not get becalmed in it.

For a much shorter time, the Trades and the Equatorial Current that flowed the same direction in concert with each other would impede them, then… though the Sou’east Trade might still rule, an Eastward -flowing current that girded the southern rim of the Doldrums, parent to the one they now fought, would kiss them on their starboard, lee, bows to counter the leeway lost to the winds. A few slogging degrees more of latitude, and the winds would shift to out of the West, in concert with that current, and they’d all be there!

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