Cat-driven delay having shortened our weather window, nature also closed it down from the other end (i.e., the winds picked up again faster than forecast)So we did not have time to make it across the Gulf Stream before they came on strong and directly against the stream: exactly what is not recommended in Van Sant (and more to the point, we have direct experience of what wind-against-current does on the Gulf Stream, and we will wait for weather).

Plan B: stage up to Marathon and wait for the next decent window to either slip farther north to Molasses Reef, or scoot across to Bimini if the next weather window is slightly longer