Crossing the Gulf Stream & Fishing for Dinner | Day 1

After leaving the Gulf Stream behind, we finally arrive on the Bahama Bank — and the ocean greets us with something completely unexpected.

Glass-off conditions.

The water turns into a mirror as far as we can see, leaving us with no wind and a long day and night of motoring across the shallow turquoise banks. With the autopilot set and nowhere to be in a hurry, the boys try their luck at fishing while we settle into the rhythm of passage life.

But the calm doesn’t last forever.

Before long, the wind begins to fill in… and it’s not quite what the forecast had promised.

What starts as an easy crossing of the banks slowly begins to change, and we start getting our first hint that this passage south might not be as straightforward as we hoped.

And at this point… we still have a long way to go.

This is Day 1 (our first full day) of our daily passage sailing from the United States to Colombia aboard our 40-foot sailboat, Escapade.

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