The boats going down towards the Equator, north Atlantic,
have to deal with the Canary Islands.
You go through them.
You got accelerations in between the islands but
there's no wind behind the island.
How do we stay in that area?
Or you go in between the African coast and the Canary Islands.
But then you are committed long term.
You are very close to Africa.
How do you ever get back west again?
At some states you're going to have to sail through the wake
of the Canary Islands.
Or, do we go out west early, forget about the Canary Islands, and
try to start to come down here.
That's a very important choice once you get out of Gibraltar,
what to do with the Canary Islands.
They're always in the way.
Okay, now we've seen what the problem can be for
the Canary Islands, we can also see what the boats did in the last edition.
Some of the boats made significant gain to the west.
They seem to have the plan to go west of the Canary Islands and
not get stuck behind the Canary Islands.
As you can see here on the map where I said before, once you get stuck in between
the African coast and the Canary Islands, you're in trouble.
It's very hard to get back out west again.
All right so anything you can gain in the West earlier on
is common knowledge amongst navigators.
This capital later on would be big gain later on.
Here you can see that the low now has started to move through,
you can see the Azores high over here starting to reform.
It will probably shift up North a little bit and very careful.
It shouldn't shift east.
Because if it shifts east towards the Canary Islands,
the boats that went furthest west, maybe they get caught by the Azores high, right?
Lighter winds.
Let's have a look how it thins out here.