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Global cruising schedules are dictated by seasonal weather patterns, specifically cyclone and hurricane seasons, which force sailors to move boats to safe harbors or haul-out facilities for months at a time. In the South Pacific, vessels must clear the tropics for New Zealand or southern Queensland by December to avoid cyclone risk.2:20 Similarly, the Caribbean and Mexico require boats to be secured between June and November.3:04 In Indonesia, the northwest monsoon brings dangerous squalls that necessitate leaving boats in secure, Western-style marinas like those near Lombok.1:16 Planning requires balancing passage distances—often thousands of nautical miles—with the physical and mental exhaustion of maintaining a strict schedule.3:46 Jimmy Cornell’s *World Cruising Routes*, *World Voyage Planner*, *World Cruising Destinations*, and *Ocean Atlas* serve as primary planning resources, which should be cross-referenced with real-time data from Noonsite.com and NoForeignLand.com.7:35 Proper planning involves mapping out seasonal windows for specific regions, such as the Indian Ocean transit from Thailand to South Africa, which requires a departure in March to arrive before October.10:29

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