Or else you could take the offshore route, which many people underprepared for blue-water passages just might decide to do. Leading, of course, to a sharp spike in distress calls and deaths - a completely predictable side effect of unwise regulation...
I’ve run offshore, and the boat and I can handle that. Doing that on a run to Florida gets dicey, though, because you are never completely out of the storm season (it doesn’t have to be a hurricane), and there are not that many good ports of refuge on an outside passage.