I'm with Evans on this one, 100%!!!
What a memorable first passage you'd have...
I've sailed across the North Atlantic quite a bit, but never north of 25 - 30 degrees in the wintertime.....
And, I have personal (family) knowledge of the North Atlantic (north of 40 degrees) in the "off-season"......
Back in the 1970's my parents sailed from S.
Florida to UK in early April (departed April 2nd).....and it was ROUGH, COLD, and WET.....and that was on board their well-built and well-equipped Hinckley.....(I wisely stayed in Ft. Lauderdale and met them next year in the MED)...they had a fun time, but not something I'd choose.....(I'm a warm weather guy!!)
{When I write "sailed", I really mean it.....a day after leaving
Bermuda, they broken a piston and connecting rod in the
engine.....and the "sailed" the rest of the way, including into Horta, and up the river in Falmouth!!!!}
I cannot image anyone "volunteering" to sail a
catamaran, upwind across the Atlantic north of 40 degrees, in the wintertime.....
You might make it fine, but I'd certainly NOT recommend anyone doing it as their first passage.....and I'm the kind of guy that likes screaming across the
Gulf Stream in a decent northerly
wind...
I usually close with "Fair winds", but that seems a bit odd in this instance...
John
s/v Annie Laurie