No rocks out there, average depth is a couple miles. A few atolls, location well known.
Autosailing devices keep the boat on a selected heading, the wind is very constant in direction if not intensity on average, at least when a significant distance from the equator (which is why they are called "trade winds" -- blow the same direction months at a time. The simple ones are just a small sail rigged up to the rudder to keep the sail fluttering -- as the boat drifts off the selected course relative to the wind, the small sail pulls the tiller or wheel over and moves the rudder. They are not perfect, but that trip from Hawaii to Tahiti is a very, very common deep sea sailing trip, also to a couple atolls in the same areas. And morons take off on the trip all the time without the ability to actually navigate or find out where they are after a storm..... Peter _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
