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Interesting or not, you decide...

Early this morning, while was still dark out I stumbled out to our luggage-strewn balcony to check the weather. The sun was starting to make it's presence visible through a beautiful pink and blue panorama behind us.

I asked Fellette to come out and witness what could be the last sunrise of this trip. She reluctantly put on her dressing gown and came out beside me.

I mentioned the lack of wind and waves because we were in the Horse Latitudes. Then proceeded to spiel off what I think is some interesting data: The Doldrums are 10 degrees wide, therefore they are [about] 10 x 60 knots wide or 660 miles deep. And the horse latitudes are 5 degrees wide or about 330 miles wide. Therefore the diameter of the trade winds would be the area between 5 degrees and 30 degrees, or 25 degrees, or about 1650 miles in diameter.

I then said "Isn't that interesting?" She looked at me and said one word, NO!

It is possible that I have been spouting what I thought were some interesting bits and pieces of newly acquired knowledge for the last quarter of a year and it has been falling on completely bored ears? But I know enough about human nature to know that some of you who are 'seekers of knowledge' got a bit of something out of all my scribblings.

I sure hope all of the foregoing is correct, if not perhaps my friend Ian, or others, may correct me.