The trajectories released to the north of the GS recirculate in a large anticyclone at the Gulf Stream separation point and then enter a zonal meandering eastward flow that turns northeastward unrealistically too far to the east. The AC is not clearly discernable and no trajectories re-enter the GS as part of the Sargasso Sea recirculation. This is partly due to the unrealistic eastward flow around 26° to 28°N that captures many of the simulated drifters; no equivalent feature is seen in the drifter observations. A small convergence zone in the southeastern sector of the basin is found in roughly the same location as in the 0.1° model. The northern currents are in better qualitative agreement with the observations. Trajectories initiated south and east of Iceland enter the NwAtC via the Iceland-Faroe Ridge, while those initiated to the west either enter the WGC and continue into the EGC or move northeastward around Iceland. In the LS, those initiated in the southern part of the sea flow southward in the Labrador Current. They either flow unrealistically far south until they meet with GS or turn eastward to flow across the basin.