Drifting on the Atlantic, Al Jedida to Las Palmas

The Open Sailing is mostly a drifting structure, which means, its journey depends greatly of the currents and winds. We will need to see the weather forecast and conditions, but the journey Al Jedida to Las Palmas seems a very accessible first ride. About the currents in the Atlantic North, "the Canary Current travel at 0.03 to 0.07 m/s", 5cm/s average, not very fast.

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Currents :

So that's 3m/minute, 180m/hour, 4'320m/day, 129'600m/30days, 129,6km in 30 days. We have about 30 days of drifting planned, during which we want to sail about 832km, so currents alone would do about 1/6 of the "propulsion".

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Winds :
Our zone has average winds 15knots per hour (30km/h) which is not very fast. So if we add the current and influence of dominant winds, we can hope to consequently accelerate our pace.

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Waves :

The waves might slow us, but shouldn't threaten us as the average seems to be about 1.5 m height in average, shouldn't be too hard to handle that.

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Predators :

The worst animal that can approach us is the great white shark

There are white sharks where we are going

But they rarely attack in deep sea, usually in shallow waters

Sharks have a strong tendency to attack human males

And preferrably caucasians.

So if you are a black girl swimming in deep sea, you should be fine said the statistics.

Morocco has no recorded history of fatal shark attack, the canary Island had 1 fatal shark attack between 1828 and 2007, our chances to be attacked by sharks are very low, and our chances to die of the following almost inexistant. Still we will be extra carefull.

So globally our journey on the part 1 of the expedition Al jedida to Las Palmas, should be sunny, not very windy, quite small waves and with almost no chance to be attacked by large predators. GREAT !