I thought you might. Still you see my concern for later.
Vessel particulars. It’s a made up vessel pick any you like. Fairly typical of a small geared bulk carrier, mine was a laker, at 580 ft long 76 beam and up to 30ft draft. Service speed typical about 15 knots.
more common to be chartered slower at best economic 12 or 13 knots.
Box boat bigger faster particularly faster 20 knots changes things a bit. Less uncertainty.
My point is you can advise me to go North but your advising me to take a lot more risk for a small possibility of a gain in efficiency.
Deck cargoe is vulnerable. Particularly to bad weather.
Timber particularly, I will be down near my marks and with minimal stability. Possibly negative stability with an angle of lol.
even strong winds and spray on one side for an extended no of days could have an impact.
Hence my desire to get south.
It’s as they used to say a “slow boat to China” or in this case Japan.
At the speed of the question. Even an average loss of a knot or half a knot is going to start tipping the scales.