@Bartholemew:
But the Log Pose of the Strawhats' is pointing to Fishman Island, isn't it?
Shouldn't that imply that Fishman Island is a part of the Strawhats' route and not part of the other routes?
And the other paths are clearly going through the Red Line on the map.
Oh no no xD I didn't mean that Fishman Island was part of ALL the routes (but yeah it is part of the SHs') The poster was asking why all the rookies were on Shabondy, and I guess I wasn't very clear in my reply. They were all lead to Shabondy one way or another but not by the Log Pose.
When Shakky said "…and so in order to get past that wall, every one of them ends up coming here to this archipelago" I was under the impression that there's other channels or gaps in the Red Line that are underwater and that all these crews will go through one of them - and not necessarily the one that leads to Fishman Island. Basically Shabondy is a mandatory detour and once these crews are done there, they'll go back towards the direction they were heading in the first place.