Bajansailor
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I guess the important need is an easy clearance. From days before GPS it was the done thing to aim for Barbados because the loom of light from that remote island was a correction to final approach. The loom could be seen for close to 100 miles.
You could always aim to visit us again in Barbados re your first landfall in the New World - and then you won't have to beat to windward from the Windwards to get here later on.
Have a look at Chris Doyle's note about Barbados in my signature.
Lots should be happening here by next winter - tourism is picking up again, and we seem to have Covid under control (although there are still one or two new cases reported in the newspaper each day recently), with approx 30% of the population fully vaccinated already.
And there is lots to see and do here - my pal Dave on Puddytat recently crossed late from Gibraltar to Barbados non stop, arrived 2 weeks ago, and they are planning on staying here for the hurricane season now. If a hurricane does threaten us here, then they will scoot south.
PUDDYTAT (Sailing Vessel) Registered in United Kingdom - Vessel details, Current position and Voyage information - IMO 0, MMSI 235064205, Call Sign 2AZM2
(Puddy is a 40' Catana who has now been around the world).