Offshore Sailing: Weather Routing to the Caribbean
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- čas přidán 6. 11. 2019
- As ICEBEAR & ISBJORN prepare to depart Annapolis on the Chesapeake Bay, bound for Tortola in the British Virgin Islands, Andy and August brief the passage route and the weather they expect to encounter en route.
August Sandberg is ISBJORN's new skipper going forward.
The 1500-mile passage starts in Annapolis, and both boats will sail down the Bay, where at Norfolk we'll go offshore, aiming for a waypoint about 120 miles south of Bermuda, then we'll hang a right turn and sail due south, bound for the Virgin Islands.
This is one of the toughest passages we do at 59 North - winter has nearly arrived in the northeast, a cold front after cold front will sweet over the region, plus we still have the threat of late season tropical activity. The goal is to depart immediately after a cold front, to get offshore and across the Gulf Stream on northerly winds before the next front rolls through.
The beauty of this trip is that the farther you go, the warmer it gets. After 7-10 days at sea, we'll be firmly in the tradewinds and looking forward to landfall in the tropics!
Love this content. It's really a great insight for us in the early stages of our sailing development to see how the pros do it.
Awesome thanks for posting! More like this please!
Extremely interesting, and informative. Thanks so much! C & C 26
Love it! Keep it coming
Thank you for sharing. Very interesting how you make sense of the forecast. Like any great learning resource, it inspires me with a lot of questions that I should look up for answers myself. Thank again.
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Cool. Can someone explain why I would use weather 4d rather than PredictWind offshore?
Chango de la Porcelaina Canada Just our preference. We use the GFS model within Weather 4D, the free model available from NOAA. Predict Wind uses several other models including their own proprietary model. I stick with the old standard and prefer 4D’s interface and routing software.
59 North Sailing thx Andy. You and Mia really have awesome podcasts!
Still happy with the Watt & Sea?
Looking to fit one on my Swan 44
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