Agulhas current

Leaving Durban and heading for Cape Town takes some very careful weather planning. This is crucial as the current runs heavily from north to south down the coast. If the wind is against this then massive seas build in an instant and these are what have claimed many ships over the years. The weather is very changeable but luckily for us there was a week long weather window which gave us the opening we needed to make Cape Town in one hit. By the time we were making Cape Agulhas we had caught a few of the other yachts in the Oyster fleet and continued to sail round Cape Point with Purusha with the wind soaring down the side of Table Mountain and gusting in the bay at up to 50 knots before our arrival into a very calm harbour at Cape Town.