Having just debarked from the 2017 EBTA, I am already well into the planning stages for this 2018 EBTA cruise.
I'll post what I hope will be some helpful info for your planning. Let's start with what kind of weather we can hope for. Of course, everyone who cruised or were crew during the infamous 2016 EBTA are still talking about their cold, rainy weather and scary high seas experience. However, that course was much farther north. We had quite the opposite experience last month on our warm, calm easterly sailing. With this cruise starting even farther south from Miami, and ending farther south in Europe, I'm expecting warmer temps and comparably calm seas throughout. According to the end-of-cruise brochure we received on the next-to-last night of our sailing, here were the 2017 EBTA weather stats with my personal comments in brackets:
Day 1, May 13, Embarkation in Port Canaveral: SSW Winds, Partly Sunny, 78ºF/26ºC [I would have called it mostly cloudy. There was a threat of rain, so the Sail Away Party was moved to the Atrium. The skies never did more than a light sprinkling.]
Day 2, May 14, At Sea: E Winds, Partly Cloudy, 77ºF/26ºC
Day 3, May 15, At Sea: SW Winds, Partly Cloudy, 72ºF/22ºC [We thought the weather was absolutely perfect!]
Day 4, May 16, At Sea: N Winds, Partly Cloudy, 72ºF/22ºC
Day 5, May 17, At Sea: S Winds, Partly Sunny, 72ºF/22ºC
Day 6, May 18, At Sea: SW Winds, Partly Cloudy, 72ºF/22ºC [DH and I began to suspect the Magic's thermometer was broken since the temperatures never changed.]
Day 7, May 19, At Sea: SW Winds, Partly Cloudy, 72ºF/22ºC
Day 8, May 20, Ponta Delgada: S Winds, Partly Cloudy, 63ºF/17ºC [This is our first port on the 2018 EBTA, too!]
Day 9, May 21, At Sea: S Winds, Partly Cloudy, 63ºF/17ºC [From here, we'll head due east to Lisbon instead of northeast.]
Day 10, May 22, At Sea: N Winds, Partly Cloudy, 63ºF/17ºC [All our ports will be much farther south!]
Day 11, May 23, Portland, England: W Winds, Partly Cloudy, 57ºF/15ºC [It was cool, just a light jacket needed.]
Day 12, May 24, Dover, England: W Winds, Partly Cloudy, 63ºF/17ºC [I would have called it mostly sunny and quite warm. No jackets needed.]
Day 13, May 25, Amsterdam, Netherlands: NE Winds, Partly Cloudy, 72ºF/22ºC [Seriously? The same temps, AGAIN??]
Day 14, May 26, At Sea: NE Winds, Partly Cloudy, 54ºF/12ºC
Day 15, May 27, Copenhagen, Denmark: SW Winds, Sunny, 74ºF/23ºC