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Fw: [DRAKE] Trade winds
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Paul Drake <[log in to unmask]>
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Paul Drake <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Sun, 29 Feb 2004 10:10:10 -0600
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Southsiders:  FYI
----- Original Message ----- 
 
To: James W. Tiller 
Sent: Sunday, February 29, 2004 10:04 AM
Subject: Re: [DRAKE] Trade winds


Thanks, James.  My readings over the years revealed widespread fear of being entangled in the "gulf weed", since rescue was next to impossible.  I appreciate knowing that weeds may have been less a problem than the lack of winds of substance in the area west of France and England and east of our mid-Atlantic colonies.  Paul 

---- Original Message ----- 
  From: James W. Tiller 
  To: Paul Drake 
  Sent: Sunday, February 29, 2004 9:59 AM
  Subject: Re: [DRAKE] Trade winds


  Actually less a weed problem than the calm so typical of the centers of
  all semi-permanent high pressure cells such as that found in the general
  area of Bermuda (called the Bermuda High).

  A geographer



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