Boston-Bermuda-Caribbean Best month?

[paulg222]

Originally Posted by billknny

The simple answer is outside of the hurricane season and the winter gale season. Unfortunetly, the North Atlantic is not a simple place to sail in a small boat.

If you are doing the "snowbird" passage south at the end of summer it is a very tough call, because there really is not a gap between the end of the hurricane season and the gale season that is measured in "months". Sometimes there is no real gap at all.

Now, LOTS of people do this passage in November. And every year some of them get hammered--badly.

The best answer is be ready to leave in mid October, and watch for a useful weather window. Be ready to jump as soon as you get a gap that looks good to you. If you are not comfortable making that call, hire a professional weather router to help. In any event, pick your best time, go fast, and be prepared for very rough weather if things go pear-shaped on the forecast.

There are lots of resources available to give a more timely, complete and nuanced answer to this question that you can get from postings here. By far the most popular and the best is World Cruising Routes by Jimmy Cornell. If you are planning to cross oceans, just buy one--and read it.

There are similarities between this answer and the article written here: https://bettersailing.com/best-time-to-sail-to-bermuda/ . One of you copied the other unless you are the same person.

[Nicholson58]

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