Transequatorial Ocean Crossing 2011 Low Def

32 Days: Cape Verde Island to Cape Town, South Africa. Following our Transatlantic crossing, we made short passages between the ports of Caen, Ouistreham, Lorient, La Trinite, La Coruna, Madeira, Gran Canaria, Tenerife, and Cape Verde Island. With 50 days of food on board, we were ready to make our long passage south. We departed Cape Verde on November 10th and arrived in South Africa on December 12th. Classic Voyage. We started in the Northeast Trades through the InterTropical Convergence Zone, complete with a 40 knot black squall. Crossed the Equator with 20 knots of wind, barely made it around the horn of South America at Recife 60 miles offshore, down the coast of Brazil to 38 South and then took a left in the Westerlies as the high was North 35S. One Southern Ocean gale for 36 hours with what Tormentina and James called the monster waves, a Westerly course to 15 East, where we turned NE providing a good angle on the Southeast Trades up to the Cape of Good Hop