Sailing Season

  • Pascal Lutz
    Many approximations here. The northern limit in Atlantic is ridiculously high, you don't want to sail the North Atlantic between November and February between Canada ans Brittany. Adversely, you can perfectly go from Cabo Verde to Brasil in May or June.
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  • Pascal Lutz
    In the SE part of the Pacific, no pb, you can do Chile-Marquesas anytime, e.gJanuary.
  • Guy Chester
    Look at Jimmy Cornell's atlas...
  • Bill Inch
    May though October on the west coast of Mexico is hurricane season... And evidently the coast of California is never good, yet I lived in LA and you can sail any day of the year.
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    • Bob Puharic
      Bill Inch there are several sailing vessels as we speak, sailing from Mexico to points in the S Pacific.
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      • Bill Inch
        Bob Puharic absolutely, this is the time of year to head south. I had dinner on the Trimaran Solar Wind in Bahia Blandra, just outside of La Paz. We were coming back from Race Week in early May (I think it was 1997) and they they were headed off to the South Pacific in a couple of weeks. They left closer to June 1st. They ran right into a tropical storm, radioed a Mayday but neither boat nor crew were ever seen again.
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      • Bob Puharic
        Bill Inch Yes, i have regular radio contact with 1 vessel every night…departed Mexico last week
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      • Bob Puharic
        Bill Inch yes, the Pacific Seafarer’s net on 14300 KHz
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      • Bill Inch
        Bob Puharic Were they buddy boats with you? Are you on your boat in Mexico?
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      • Bob Puharic
        Bill Inch No, just a net controller. We track vessels on a voluntary basis
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      • Bill Inch
        Bob Puharic That's awesome Bob. I never had SSB, but cruised Mexico and based out of La Paz for 10 years, from 1994 though 2004. When making passages, it's really, really nice to hear people on the radio, even if it's just VHF. I lost my rudder off t… 
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      • Bob Puharic
        Bill Inch Yes I helped a buddy sail his boat from Baltimore to Block Island. We spent 1 night 60 miles offshore…boy talk about lonely. We had HF on board. I’m also a USCG radio operator so have helped many vessels in distress. I think most long distanc… 
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      • Bill Inch
        Bob Puharic In the 2000s I spent 5 years working in the engine room of the old Asphalt Commander, a 670' bulk oil carrier that worked the east coast, Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean. Even back then we used satellite communication. Anyone who's ever s… 
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  • Kevin Connell
    Great reminder how much horrendous content there is from people trying to monetize their boating lifestyle via producing content for social media
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  • Warren Holybee
    Most people in the Caribbean are leaving the area in May to go North. Hmmm.
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  • Laurie Campbell
    Lots of people sail around Great Britain, Norway, the Faroes, Iceland, Greenland, and Canada (both sides) and Alaska. Why are they not given times to sail?
  • Warren Holybee
    Rule of thumb, don't be in the tropics during the summer. Either cross the equator to where it's winter, or move to a higher latitude.
    This chart gets that wrong in a few places, and would put the sailor in a potential hurricane.
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  • Henrik Sandberg
    In scandinavia you can sail between april to october/november. Or year around depending on ice and how much clothes you are Willing to wear 😉
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  • Bob Salmons
    What about the Pacific Northwest?
  • Scott Erwin
    May-October is exactly when not to be in the Pacific above Panama. The season is exactly the opposite. November-May
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  • Nyck Bool
    I like the idea, but the map is not super precise. For example... I'm not sure the sea of Cortez is May-Oct for the best weather for sailing
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  • Behan Gifford
    This is NOT good advice! Yikes!
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  • Javier Fernandez
    May to October in coast of Chile ???.........
  • Shawn Bennett
    May July Bahamas? Huh?
  • Raychel Brown
    Who did this map? so many wrongs! Especially if you have insurance on your boat…this is a hard NO
    May be an image of map and text that says 'No May Jul ct'
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    • Troy Vance
      Agreed Raychel Brown! This is VERY off..
      We leave, headed South to Panama from Washington- San Diego, or New York to Florida.. at the end of October.. Hoping you'll be back in Northern ports by May - 1st of June!..
      This chart could land those who don't know, smack dab in the middle of a Hurricane!! 😳
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  • Sven Ulfson
    Don't think so.
  • Norm Mac Donald
    Bahamas is from December to may
  • Mike Keough
    Florida season is listed as May-Jun? Seems wacky to me. I consider it to be Nov-May. Otherwise too hot, rainy and hurricanes.
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  • Rob Murray
    This is wrong.
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  • Roger Dray
    The map actually shows the non-sailing seasons
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  • Jackson David
    Roger Dray correct for Mediterranean and asia 🙂
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  • Jack Cap
    who did the coral sea? Maybe you should ask the locals and get a better idea.
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  • Dietmar Petutschnig
    total crap
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  • Ali Emre Gülcü
    Sail to death advise 😀
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  • Jamie Arrison
    Nov-February is definitely not prime time for Maine. I'd say December through June for the hurricane belt in the Caribbean
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  • Luis Andrés Romero Abarca
    South America (Chile) is from September until April. While Pacific Anticyclone is stronger.
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  • Coyo Munoz
    What season of the year do you recommend to sail from the Mexican Pacific to Seattle?
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    • Troy Vance
      You're asking the wrong source Coyo Munoz! 😂
      Whoever created this guessed on most of it!… 
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    • Matt Thompson
      Coyo Munoz you do it in May, sail to Hawaii, which will be 20-30days depending on how fast your boat is. That will put you there June to July, you’ll probably want a couple of weeks to reprovision and see the islands. Then from Hawaii you sail about 50… 
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  • Panos Kontogiannis
    North Atlantic (eastwards) is March to June while equatorial Atlantic (westwards) is correctly written as November to February.
    Caribbean sea should be labeled always.
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  • Yuyu Ilany
    In the Eastern Mediterranean us locals sail all year through... there is no "season"
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  • Kenn Stepman
    The Caribbean: May to July??? Hurricane Season? I don’t think so.
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  • Pascal Lutz
    May-July in the Caribean? This is daft, cyclone seasons starts in June. In my experience, you get good well-established tradewinds from January to May, then it’s time to think of a safety exit.
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  • Pascal Lutz
    I don’t know about the Indian Ocean yet, does the map look reliable or just as dubious as wiith the Atlantic?
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  • Nic Preller
    Rubbish map.
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  • Jeffrey Grove
    Cape Verde
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  • Gabe Coffee
    I would love to sail the other way note to the west back to the east and then everything becomes incredibly complicated
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  • Kevin Leavy
    Don't trust that gap that comes out of Virginia it's for real lost my boat in that gap..
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  • Douglas Tyson
    End of October thru May for the Caribbean.. who made this map? It’s all wrong.
    New England; May thru October..
    Mistake for Sea of Cortez also..

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