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The trade winds are fairly reliable winds that blow basically around the globe in a wide belt north and south of the Equator. These winds have carried us around half the world from Europe to the Pacific and we’ve relied on them to take us westwards and quite often battled them when sailing eastwards. We were used to having stronger and more reliable trade winds between SE and NE during the winter months and more fickle, weaker winds during summer.
Here in the western Pacific we face a (for us) new pattern: during the summer the monsoon winds bring northwesterly wind directions!
For our passage from Vanuatu via the Solomons and on to Papua New Guinea this means that we have to make use of the SE wind to make it quickly up to PNG before the wind shift to predominantly NW in December. We will then slowly hop back from PNG via the Solomons towards Vanuatu on the NW monsoon. Check out https://www.pitufa.at/oceanwinds/ for more details!
Here’s what Christian’s interactive wind atlas shows for October:

And here’s February: