Originally Posted by
Captain Kong
At times when I was with ESSO on their VLCCs, in the 70s, we left the Gulf and picked up the Agulhas Current, stop engines, then drift slowly southwards, along with several other tankers, no destination, the cargo, around three million barrels, was on the New York Stock Exchange. and it would change hands many times as we would receive many destinations.
sail around the Cape and stop engines again and drift northwards on the Benguela Current before finally getting a definite destination.
The price of oil was always fluctuating, so if someone bought three million barrels one day and it increases by two dollars a barrel, sell, a profit of six million Dollars, easy money.
So the Grace 1 could have done that.