Amari - The Current Situation

The Southern Pacific Equatorial Current is a beautiful thing. Especially since the peaceful Pacific is a little to peaceful right now. We are in probably 5 to 6 knots of wind and our speed over ground is 4-5 knots.

While I would love to attribute that to my mad ninja sailing skills, I think the current sitch is all about the current itself. Thank you SPEC!

But we have to exit this lovely hydro-conveyer belt of current to get us down below 5 degrees south. There's wind down there so we can sail, but the Equatorial currents ebb, so it's a trade off and, being a sailboat and all, I'll take the winds any day.

Digging us like a premonition of room is a storm band of ugliness. It seems to be attached to Amari through some magic thread bc the models show it tracking us for the entire first week. Like wherever we plan to go, the storms appear in that area. How do they know??

The good news is that they don't seem to be carrying wind with them. The bad news is that there's rain, but the worse news would be that they're spitting out lightning!

So we have a full 4 days of this schmutz in front of us, with rain. Ugh. But if there is balance in the universe, this means we'll have an amazing for the last two weeks.

Fingers crossed.