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With this in mind, we developed a plan - a good plan, or so we thought - for heading
north. The idea was to head well offshore and ride eddies to our advantage over the
500-mile passage. In doing so, we'd be bucking conventional Ozzie sailing wisdom that
calls for sailing north with “one foot in the sand” - that is, skirting the coast where the
contrary current is at its least or even reverses. We weren't keen on that idea, having ob-
served how closely freighter traffic hugs the coast. By heading offshore, we reasoned, we
could find north-setting eddies and avoid the inshore shipping that had given us so many
headaches on our previous trip south - well worth the price of a detour. We'd had weeks
to observe the weather and wait for the leading edge of a stable high pressure system to
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