Conditions improve farther out to sea.
Figure 8 shows that the area along the track is quite promising for several hundred kilometers beyond the coast. These holes and the patchy nature of the disturbances are probably due to the influence of the anticyclone which resides off the African coast. Ships have excellent mobility with which to exploit these breaks, and a water-borne eclipse chase should be quite promising. Weather forecasts and satellite images can provide enough information to select a promising location on the track, but leave lots of time to reach it in case the distance to clear skies is large. Mean wave heights off Brazil range between 1 and 1.5 meters in November, a low value for the latitude.