Hazard spot
Cape Hatteras: Strong current and cross seas
Cape Hatteras: The Gulf Stream meets cold coastal water and shallow banks, quickly building a short high sea. The hop north is therefore carefully timed.
- Cause
- Strong current and cross seas
- Main season
- all year
- Position
- 35° 12,0' N 075° 18,0' W
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Cape Hatteras: how the place works
Off the cape the warm Gulf Stream meets the cold Labrador Current, and the Diamond Shoals reach far offshore. The combination of a current boundary, shallow ground and passing lows earned this corner the name Graveyard of the Atlantic.
Cape Hatteras: what breaks there
The change from warm to cold water brings fog and fast weather changes, and over the shoals a breaking sea builds with wind against current. Anyone heading north meets it with the stream behind them and little in hand.
Cape Hatteras: what this means for your policy
For many policies the US east coast is a cruising range of its own, and the hurricane season raises the same question there as in the Caribbean. Settle both before heading north.
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And what applies right now?
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