I’m keeping a close eye on the weather these days. Looking for a weather window (treatment) for the hop across the Gulf Stream. So much to do, so little time. But it could be weeks before we see another window treatment like this. I have to be ready, and so the list gets edited, to the just the essential essentials.

The Gulf Stream runs about 3-4 knots through the Straits of Florida, and is the reason finding a decent weather window is so critical. Any northerly component to the wind, and the current against wind kicks up a steep and short wave in the stream. An Easterly wind is decent. It’ll be a close hauled port tack on a South Easterly course to make good a course of East, hopefully fetching Bimini, or Berries.