Crossing the N Atlantic from Main or the US
East Coast to the
Med Via the Azores in September.
Hmm. Interesting. Why would you want to do that?
Can it be done? yea probabaly, You have a nice big
boat. Capable of a couple of hundred miles in 24 hrs. Would I recomend it? No. Wait till Spring.
When in September? Early, Mid or Late? Earlier would be the lesser issues.
The first time I crossed in early September, 35 or so years ago.
Boat was a little bit bigger than yours.
Took a major **** kicking from a Huricane. I was walking in bulkheads.
That part of the world at that time of year I would expect fugly nasty weather.
Old Mariners lore, The Weather gurus may not agree. But I never trusted some tosser in an office with a computer.
Late Season Huricanes are often the worst.
The most predicatble thing about Huricanes, They dont do what is predicted.
Most late season Huricanes. track further North. Stay further North and recurve off shore without making land fall.
Some have been Known to make Landfall as Far North as
New York. Most will turn into severe N Atalantic Depresions and follow the whole way across.
A Huricane before recurve can be avoided. Quite easily afterwards no so much. Usualy only 2 or 3 hundred miles across before recurve. After recurve they tend to speed up, loose intensity and spread out. instead of being a couple of hunder miles across become a couple of thousand miles across.
Wind can still eceded Beufort 12 for hundereds of miles from storm center.
If things go just right or just wrong depending upon how you looks at it. They can meet up with a Depresion coming of the North american continent and turn realy nasty. Perfect Storm
Movie tiss the season.
So you watch the weather the story from the routing tosser is good you figure you can get across to
Bermuda without a big ol nasty huricane.
The tropical waves and depresions are still Fugly. Lots of severe thunderstorms. Particaulrly in the Evenings. This area you will see
lightning in all directions almost every night in september. Thunders storms and squals are nasty. The
Bermuda trianlge is not just a myth. most disapearances were in this time of year. No Aliens. No Abductions, No Mosters or Difrent dimensions. Just fugly weather and no particular mystry about it.
You have a nice big fast boat does it have
air conditioning. Do you have
Radar, Turn it on at night and track them. Plot them manualy if its on a steady bearing get your
sails down and your hatches battened. Getting caught with to much sail at night by a thunder bust. The Down Blast can knock you down and hold you flat. If you are caught with hatches open?
You get past Those.
Next stop Azores. You must be into late September now. Or worse early
October. Only time I ever called the
skipper and really meant it. Was about 100 miles N of the Azores in early October. 30 Years ago so memory a bit foggy might have been late September. Probably the worst **** kicking I ever took. Called the Old man 3 times in one watch wanting to Slow Down or alter course.
He said no. After He Turned In for The night I truned the course recorder off. The Mate reset it for 0700. It was a long night. I thought we might go down that night. Only time I was ever really worried.
Old Mariners tale Equinoctial storms are the worst. The weather gurus might not agree. How many of them have ever crossed the N atlantic in the Off season. I used to do it regularly.
I quite about 30 years ago.
I could be wrong you might have a lovely trip. It will be interesting. If I were you I would want a very expierienced person on watch if I was going to sleep in the evening.
Sorry I don't like to pour cold
water on ideas. Hopefully I haven't offended you again. I don't like to come across as some dick
head ex mariner. Who knows every thing. I am just a recreational sailor today. But you did ask for the opinion of someone who has crossed the N Atlantic in September.