Are the trade winds blowing? 🚢

You remember the lack of toiler paper on the shelves.

And the 2021 Suez Canal obstruction by the Ever Given.

In the Age of Sail, nothing was more prestigiously predicted than the safe return of ships. The success of venture on the great blue.

Contrary to what I thought, Easterlies do not blow east. Rather, they come from the east and blow west.

It is through these winds that much trade happened.

Counter-intuitive paths following the wind made and broke Empires.