Weather Routing: Comfortable Passagemaking
Fair winds and moderate seas make for great passagemaking
A weather forecast like an old-school dead-reckoning plot will decrease in certainty with the passage of time. Over the past five years of arranging offshore charters aboard our Swan 48,
Isbjørn, and our Swan 59,
Icebear, we’ve tempted the gods by consistently breaking the cardinal rule of cruising sailing to a schedule. However, thanks to a fundamental understanding of big-picture weather patterns and a willingness to be flexible once underway, we’ve learned that even the toughest passages can be made comfortably. In this article, we’ll look at how we plan our passage calendar and the tools we use to forecast the weather. We’ll also analyze three difficult passages Iceland to Ireland; a Bermuda-Azores Atlantic crossing; and a southbound migration from the Chesapeake Bay to the Eastern Caribbean to see how these things all work in practice.
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