Advice on route to the US please.

[Vacillator]

In game of course ;).

After a long trip to Florida in my IXC which was not particulalry well planned, I got to thinking what would real life Kaleuns do to reach the US?

I headed across to Canada and then worked my way down the coast always maintaining useful depth under my keel. Would I have been better off drawing a straight line from Lorient to Florida? Well, yes fuel-wise I imagine, particularly as the weather could not have been worse than the stinker of a storm we got. But maybe I would encounter less contacts?

Anyone know what the historical routes were? Were Kaleuns left to their own devices like we are?

As mentioned in another thread I'm on my way back now via Bermuda but that's not going too well either :roll:

[Jimbuna]

You might want to look at the in game map and try to sail along a known convoy route :arrgh!:

[Vacillator]

Jim, you always point out the obvious to me ;)! Now why didn't I think of that :roll:

So is that what WW2 Kaleuns did, assuming they had enough intel on convoy routes built up?

[Jimbuna]

Well...they tried, but we cracked their codes and rerouted the convoys usually, which meant that quite often they hung about known or suspected convoy routes and never saw a sausage :lol:

Don't worry though......no such turn of events has ever been scripted into SH3 :nope: ....AFAIK :up:

[Puster Bill]

Well, I generally head North, then turn left real sudden like....

[Vacillator]

Well, I generally head North, then turn left real sudden like....

North from Lorient? Could get messy ;)

So not the straight line to Florida approach?

[Brag]

In the real world (which is a globe) ships crossing the Atlantic used (still use) a great circle route, which is the shortest way. This would mean going close to Greenland in a sort of an arc.

The SH world is flat, so a straight line is the shortest route.

[Puster Bill]

Well, I generally head North, then turn left real sudden like....
North from Lorient? Could get messy ;)

So not the straight line to Florida approach?

Technically the appropriate course is a Great Circle, so there would be a bit of a northern component to your travel, at least initially.

Really, though, I was parodying a line from "Last of the Mohicans".

[Vacillator]

Sorry Bill, I missed that. Have seen the film but it was many moons ago.

[Rose]

Great movie :yep:

[KeptinCranky]

In Sh3: get out of Biscay pronto head southwest , then when you're about due west from Lisbon set course 270 and Immer Gerade Aus! set speed to 9 knots for fuel economy and bring some reading material. it might take a while but you get there eventually

in RL they of course went north towards greenland and back south again

[Reverie]

Just do your boat and crew a favour...stay away from Nova Scotia :huh:

the air is thick up there...tired bees.
Reverie