A Weather Window

It appears we have a weather window to leave Brunswick and sail to the Chesapeake, taking 3 1/2 days. It isn’t ideal—there is a chance we will pass through some squalls off of North Carolina—but seems doable. We had been thinking along the lines of leaving here Monday (two days from now) and sailing to Beaufort, NC. Then it looked as if we would be waiting in Beaufort at least a week, maybe longer. 

This morning, on Chris Parker’s weather broadcast, we asked about the trip to Beaufort and also asked about leaving a day earlier (Sunday) and sailing to the Chesapeake. Both options would take us through the potentially squally area. Chris said he thought it would be possible to do the longer trip, as long as we were comfortable with the potential for some squalls. We would prefer not to have them, of course, but will keep an eye on the weather and change course if necessary. George has already downloaded a few runs on our Predict Wind weather routing software and we can continue to do more when we are offshore using our Iridium Go satellite phone. 

We have been spending the day getting ready for the trip and will make our final decision early tomorrow morning. 

Here is an example from our Predict Wind weather routing software.