What Is the Preferred West-to-East Atlantic Sailing Route from US ?

[sy_gilana]

see our web page for daily fixes , first time we went via BMDA, last time we went north its MUCH faster. The adventures of yacht Gilana and then click umm 2008 ...

[markpierce]

My first step would be to study pre-19th century North Atlantic sailing practices.

[rpeebles]

And where might we find such information. Thanks!

[atoll]

ocean passages of the world, or the one plagarised by jimmy cornell.
might also want to have a look at the n atlantic pilot charts

Atlas of Pilot Charts for the Major Oceans of the World

[IslandHopper]

Originally Posted by atoll

ocean passages of the world, or the one plagarised by jimmy cornell.
might also want to have a look at the n atlantic pilot charts

Atlas of Pilot Charts for the Major Oceans of the World

A very usefull site for downloads.....

[Slaneynirit]

And dose anybody have an idea what is the best time and preferred rout from the Canaries back to Gibraltar?

[Copacabana]

Jimmy Cornel's World Cruising Routes is great, but he only provides the most common sailing routes for cruising yachts (there is precious little on the Atlantic coast of South America, for example). The Pilot Charts or Ocean Passages of the World (American or British) provide much more detail if you are thinking about taking routes less travelled or want details of specific areas on more common routes. These are amazing resources for planning your routes, providing wind speed and direction, currents, sea state, weather etc. for every month of the year, based on data collected over centuries.

[Slaneynirit]

Thanks
Got the books but want to know if anybody did it and get some personal feed backs

[tonytheboat]

From around new york head up to canada green land ice land the down to ireland saying that i went from tortola bvi to the azores then gibraltar and up to turkey dismasted ioutside the azores rebilt mast and two weeks later headed off with a storm 1000 miles behind us it pushed us a good couple of hundred miles on ourway

[kalbahnov]

just looking at windy: https://www.windy.com/?44.371,-43.726,4

I wonder why people are suggesting BVI to Azores, upwind the whole way, instead of Nova Scotia to Azores, which would be wind on the beam or behind the whole way?

Is that a stupid question?

[tonytheboat]

Its simple really thats where the deliverie was from tortola to turkey