Slightly more detailed cruising plans

We have been giving some more serious thought to where we might go. After consulting Google Earth, lists of charts, some cruising guides and also our inclinations; we have come up with the following ideas.

Plan A

• Leave Gibraltar early May and get to Faro two weeks later.
  
• Coast hop and up Guadiana and possibly Guadalquivir.
  
• Coast hop to Lagos and then kick off to Ponta Delgada.
  
• Arrive Azores late June.
  
• Sail to La Rochelle.
  
• Coast hop round north coast of Spain (Bilbao).
  
• Meet Mother Vigo 24/08/2013.
  
• Week in Rias with Mother Coast hop down Portugal.
  
• Morocco in September Madeira late September.
  
• Arrive Canaries late October.
  
• Leave Canaries late November for Cape Verde.
  
• Explore Cape Verde till after Christmas.
  
• Mindelo to Barbados Dec/Jan.
  
• Up through the Windward Islands.
  
• Puerto Rico by March.
  
• Cuba?.
  
• Jamaica?.
  
• Clear out Bahamas for Bermuda early May.
  
• Azores June/July.
  
• Back to UK August.
  

Possible Variations

• Weather in Biscay France/Spain too crap.
  
• Stay in Azores longer and go direct to NW Spain.
  
• Winter in Algarve as we are not ready to go across pond in 2013/14.
  
• Head into Med after all.
  
• Do we go to Jamaica?
  
• If we fly to Jamaica where from? Fort Lauderdale most likely.
  
• We don't go across Atlantic in winter of 2013 but stay in Europe until 2014 get back to UK 2015.
  
• After crossing to Azores from Bahamas we go into Med and spend a while in Turkey??
  

There is still a lot that is very much up in the air. One of the slightly disappointing aspects that has come out is that we will be very unlikely to be able to visit Trinidad on this trip. It is looking more and more likely that we will now visit the US as flights to Jamaica are so much cheaper from there compared to inter island flying