[Hot Tabasco]

Their course was the logical one and based on sound seamanship considering the magnitude of the hurricane.

They were effectively sailing on the eastward side of the storm, heading south and would have successfully sailed around the southern tail of the storm had their engines and pumps not given out.

It was a calculated risk and the right one to make considering the fact that the ship would have been destroyed if it had made port anywhere along the coastline where the hurricane was the most intense...........

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[Oztrich Boy]

Their course was the logical one and based on sound seamanship considering the magnitude of the hurricane.

They were effectively sailing on the eastward side of the storm, heading south

Westward side (the storm center is still 100+ miles out to sea.

Going East they would of been bucking headwinds all the way

West side with the wind was logical, but it meant sailing between the storm and C.Hatteras. Sometimes there are no good options.