On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 07:19:31 -0500, DSK wrote:

If you go out to the middle of the Gulf Stream looking for favorable
current, or follow a rhumb line all the way, you end up about 120 miles
out which is too far IMHO for weather contingincies.

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That is true but you can shade the course a bit to the west for the
first half of the trip and still get a piece of the gulf stream. I
can average over 8 kts with the trawler so getting a full kick from
the stream is not as important.