Hurricanes are quite violent.
When you come to America, whether from the Pacific or the Atlantic, that's a one one trip without the right kind of hull.
The subtropics have shipworms that eat wood ~ quickly.
There are many reasons to believe nobody ever made it in good weather until modern times, nor did they land in South America and go anywhere else, even locally, without making new boats.
The Sa'ami made it in winter at the edge of the Sea Ice about 20,000 years ago.