{"id":34106,"date":"2019-11-22T15:15:33","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T15:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=34106"},"modified":"2019-11-22T15:15:33","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T15:15:33","slug":"the-north-atlantic-in-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2019\/11\/the-north-atlantic-in-november\/","title":{"rendered":"The North Atlantic in November"},"content":{"rendered":"

As we are assembling and writing this week\u2019s edition of Cruising Compass<\/em> we\u2019ve been keeping an eye on the progress of La Vagabonde<\/em> as they sail east across the North Atlantic from Hampton, VA to Portugal. When we learned awhile ago that Riley, Elayna and Lenny, the stars of the YouTube phenomenon Sailing La Vagabonde, would ferry climate activist Greta Thunberg across the ocean so she could attend the UN Climate conference in Madrid, Spain, which starts in early December, we took a deep breath. The North Atlantic in November can be a real weather mine field.\u00a0\u2028\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In the top PredictWind graphic, you can see La Vagabonde<\/em>\u2019s route; they left the U.S. and dodged a big low that was off the coast by turning dramatically south. Then they turned east to sail beneath the low. They have had 25 plus knots of breeze most of the time and the seas are large, conditions that can be challenging for a light-weight performance cruising catamaran. Earlier this week, the National Hurricane Center identified a developing low just north of the Virgin Islands and named it tropical storm Sebastien. The forecast route, as shown in the bottom graphic, has the tropical storm moving northeast at eight knots toward La Vagabonde\u2019s current easterly course. This morning, Riley and Elayna slowed their boat down; perhaps they will try to let Sebastien pass well in front of them. We\u2019ll stay tuned to see what develops.\u2028 Sailing in the North Atlantic in November is taking a considered risk. The 70 boats in the Salty Dawg Fall Rally have just made their passages south from Hampton to Antigua and elsewhere without too much bad weather. The Atlantic Rally for Cruisers will send off 250 boats this fall for the passage west from the Canary Islands to the Caribbean, which is usually a squally Trade Wind passage. So, there are a lot of sailors out in the North Atlantic this month. The eastward passage that La Vagabonde<\/em> is making in the mid-latitudes raises the weather stakes since they are not sailing in the Trades or sailing away from the Atlantic gales, instead they are dodging their way through the gales. And now there\u2019s Sebastien to contend with.\u2028\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What do you think about sailing in the North Atlantic in November? Email me at: george@bwsailing.com<\/a>
\nFollow La Vagabonde\u2019s passage here<\/a>. \u2028Track TS Sebastien here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As we are assembling and writing this week\u2019s edition of Cruising Compass we\u2019ve been keeping an eye on the progress of La Vagabonde as they sail east across the North Atlantic from Hampton, VA to Portugal. When we learned awhile ago that Riley, Elayna and Lenny, the stars of the YouTube phenomenon Sailing La Vagabonde, would ferry climate activist Greta Thunberg across the ocean so she could attend the UN Climate conference in Madrid, Spain, which starts in early December, we took a deep breath. The North Atlantic in November can be a real weather mine field.\u00a0\u2028\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In the top PredictWind graphic, you can see La Vagabonde\u2019s route; they left the U.S. and dodged a big low that was off the coast by turning dramatically south. Then they turned east to sail beneath the low. They have had 25 plus knots of breeze most of the time and the seas are large, conditions that can be challenging for a light-weight performance cruising catamaran. Earlier this week, the National Hurricane Center identified a developing low just north of the Virgin Islands and named it tropical storm Sebastien. The forecast route, as shown in the bottom graphic, has the tropical storm moving …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":34102,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1875],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34106"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34107,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34106\/revisions\/34107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}