Gulf Stream update to the Bahamas

Routing to Bahamas looks pretty straight forward and these currents are very similar to what we saw a couple of years ago.  Of course, 2 months from now it will be different.

Basically optimum current routing is to go down the coast to mid lat S.Carolina and cross a weak part of the GS and then sail a line that runs east of the rhumbline to stay in a favorable counter-current.  When we get closer to landfall, we would make a turn to the SW and put another current on our port beam.  Waypoints, if we were leave today are:

33N 075W
27N 076.5W

Weather-wise it is kind of quiet today with prevailing systems Westerlies in northern part of run - shifting through NW and SW depending on passing systems, easterlies and SElies in southern part of run.

The tropics have been quiet along our route, but the season is still young.  There is a low coming off Africa which has all the makings of an event, but GRIB is routing it to go north right now.  None-the-less, it is essential to stay on-top of it.