What happens if we don’t get a suitable weather window?

In short, we don’t depart. Keep in mind however, that all vessels are different, and handle weather differently. Therefore, our threshold for departure varies between different vessels.

It also depends how long the passage is. For shorter passages of a few days, for example from Eden to Melbourne, short windows may occur every few days or week, for the short ‘hop’. However, a suitable longer window from Tahiti all the way back to Australia only exists when the SE trade wind is blowing from around May to September.