SV Comfortably Numb is on a transit passage from Norfolk, Va to winter location on Florida’s East Coast. CN will be located in FL for charters to the Keys, Bahamas and beyond.

Onboard are a crew of four experienced sailors, heavily dressed for the cold weather start but with shorts for the warm weather destination. Depending on weather developments they will either pass inshore of the Gulf Stream, along the US Coast or cross through the Gulf Stream and sail down it’s eastern side to cross again near the Bahamas. The fall season brings rapid, and sometimes violent, changes in weather as strong cold fronts move down from Canada and encounter the warm waters of the Gulf Stream.

Wednesday start was in clear cool skies with moderate winds. Daytime temperatures in the low 60’s will drop to the 40’s overnight. for the first few nights. Winds are due to strengthen and turn to a more favorable direction.