{"id":9569,"date":"2019-12-13T12:14:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T12:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/svslowflight.com\/?p=9569"},"modified":"2020-01-31T14:07:12","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T14:07:12","slug":"goodbye-indian-ocean-hello-atlantic-passage-from-richards-bay-to-cape-town-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/svslowflight.com\/index.php\/2019\/12\/13\/goodbye-indian-ocean-hello-atlantic-passage-from-richards-bay-to-cape-town-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye Indian Ocean, Hello Atlantic….Passage from Richards Bay to Cape Town, South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Just a recap of why this passage is not one to be played around in, is risk of wind against the Agulhas current and the lack of shelter along the “wild coast”. In general, the summer months in South Africa allow for the South Atlantic High to position it’s self off the coast of Richards Bay to give you the NE winds down the coast. However, each year is different and while Summer was trying her best to become stable, disturbing coastal low pressures systems, which can be too small to see in Grib files, generate “uncomfortable” conditions and in short produce very short weather windows to head down the coast….hence why we choose to wait in Richards Bay for a month so long until we saw a window long enough for us to make more distance between ports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n