When is it possible to travel to the Americas?

I'm currently running Stainless Steel 6.4.

My Carracks are on the westernmost side of the map and the year is 1384, yet I can't seem to travel to the Americas. Do I have to wait for a specific event to occur?


Solution 1:

Yes. You need to have the World Is Round event pop-up. In vanilla games it tends to appear at around 160-164 turns. You'll also notice that as soon as you start sailing west the map will cover a bigger area. After that you can just keep sailing to either Brazil (west from Lisbon), Mexico (West from London) or Florida (Northwestern most part of the map)