If you headed west doesn't that put you right into the eddy? If it pushed you
east doesn't that mean it came from the west?


"JAXAshby" wrote in message
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olde fart, don't read this until tomorrow morning when you are sobered up a
bit.

We were *heading* 190* (that's south, olde fart) trying to skirt inside the
Gulf Stream when an eddy (the Gulf Stream has lots of eddies, olde fart, but
we
didn't expect something like this) caught us and changed our COURSE to 90*
even
as we maintained our *heading* of 190*. We -- tacked -- to head ++ west ++ to
get away from the eddy.

Jax,

Are you trying to say Drift?

Now lets recap a bit. You stated that you were head south, west of the
Gulf Stream following the shelve line. Your compress was What?

Your course change from 90 degrees to a 190 degrees in a eddy? Now was
this Eddy from the Gulf Stream?

Sounds strange. If you were heading South, what were you doing on a 90
degree course? That easting.

If you were drifting 190 degrees you were finally going South! Why did
you tack?

If you were driven South by a Eddy of the Gulf Stream, Where the hell in
the Atlantic were you that the Gulf Stream was flowing SOUTH?

Jax, even if it is only in your mind, Do yourself a favor and dream of
something that doesn't involves the Gulf Stream. You can't get the
"Stream" to go South. You can't go South on a course of 90 degrees!

You sure do get caught in some mighty tall tails (WHOOPER) when you
start LYING about your experiences in the Gulf Stream. We can put this
one with your other time you had the Gulf Stream flowing SOUTH.

How do you ever expect sailors to believe such BS?

Ole Thom