Dyflin
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Taken from the official VOR website;
Leg 2 - Cape Town to Cochin
15 November 2008: Start Time: 13:00 hrs (local time)
When leg two starts from Cape Town the subtropical high should be too far east to impact on this passage to India. The biggest issue, initially, may not be the weather at all, it could be the Agulhas Current, which runs south down the east coast of South Africa. Over the shallows of the Agulhas Bank it meets cold water and the westerly winds coming the other way from the Southern Ocean. The result is a notoriously rough piece of water.
Once they’ve negotiated this, the teams will be racing to be first into the south-east trade winds, which should be settled and blowing by the time they reach Mauritius. The trades will take them into the Doldrums, and then it is going to be tricky most of the way to Kochi. Any wind on the chart is predominantly a light westerly until the Maldives, but north of that all bets are off.
Leg 2 - Cape Town to Cochin
15 November 2008: Start Time: 13:00 hrs (local time)
When leg two starts from Cape Town the subtropical high should be too far east to impact on this passage to India. The biggest issue, initially, may not be the weather at all, it could be the Agulhas Current, which runs south down the east coast of South Africa. Over the shallows of the Agulhas Bank it meets cold water and the westerly winds coming the other way from the Southern Ocean. The result is a notoriously rough piece of water.
Once they’ve negotiated this, the teams will be racing to be first into the south-east trade winds, which should be settled and blowing by the time they reach Mauritius. The trades will take them into the Doldrums, and then it is going to be tricky most of the way to Kochi. Any wind on the chart is predominantly a light westerly until the Maldives, but north of that all bets are off.
