MarAzul
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You can blame Maris' bottle thread for me thinking of Ocean currents.
When I set the MarAzul back on a course for the Northeast Pacific, it will be a course design to skirt around the seasonal Pacific high. This will take the MarAzul up North on the eastern side of the high with it's clockwise cyclonic winds aiding us on the journey. We will be able to reach out to the central north eastern pacific, then run north, and then reach North east back to the mouth of the Columbia river. The word reach here means, sail with the wind on the beam of the boat.
After plotting this course on a standard Noaa Chart, I pulled up the North Pacific currents chart to see how that worked out. Viola! We run right out into the big eddy of the North Pacific!
The last time I was there, I saw many glass floats but I only picked up a couple. Now I guess they do not make those any longer and they have become rather valuable. I wonder if the big eddy still has some?

When I set the MarAzul back on a course for the Northeast Pacific, it will be a course design to skirt around the seasonal Pacific high. This will take the MarAzul up North on the eastern side of the high with it's clockwise cyclonic winds aiding us on the journey. We will be able to reach out to the central north eastern pacific, then run north, and then reach North east back to the mouth of the Columbia river. The word reach here means, sail with the wind on the beam of the boat.
After plotting this course on a standard Noaa Chart, I pulled up the North Pacific currents chart to see how that worked out. Viola! We run right out into the big eddy of the North Pacific!
The last time I was there, I saw many glass floats but I only picked up a couple. Now I guess they do not make those any longer and they have become rather valuable. I wonder if the big eddy still has some?


