I don't think so. Going the long way around would be a nightmare due to the climate and distance...
Google the term "great circle route" and learn why distances between various points on a sphere vary greatly according to which path you take. After all, there's a very good reason why Europe searched for a Northwest and Northeast passage up through the 1800s.
... , and then you'd need a port to be founded and well-established on the other side.
The Europeans already know there are ports on the "other side" of the spice "equation" because they've been trading with them via numerous middlemen since at least the days of Rome.
In order for a port on the other side to be the slightest bit profitable, you'd need to go back and plow a road through the whole territory. I can't think of any event that would make that sort of venture seem profitable in the slightest.
First, ships don't need "roads", they can generally reach whatever ports they want, and no one imagined that the Americas would create a land barrier reaching nearly from pole to pole.
Second, the Spanish did create such a road across Panama to transship goods from the Manila galleons to the western treasure fleets. The failed Scots colony at Darien was planted with controlling such a road firmly in mind.
OTL Columbus' rationale for his Indian Enterprise was miscalculating the size of the world...
That bullshit grammar school version of Columbus' sales pitch has been pretty much refuted for several decades now. Columbus wasn't an innumerate idiot, navigators of the period with his experience could not be that mathematically challenged. If Columbus miscalculated anything it was the size of Asia, he expected it to extend much further east.
Columbus expected to find island chains in the west he could then follow to Asia. The various whispers concerning Basque fishing grounds, Norse explorations, and other early voyages gave Columbus all the evidence he needed. What he didn't expect to find was the barrier of the Americas and what his successors didn't expect to find the vastness of the Pacific. Nothing about world geography known to Europe at the time could have predicted that.
The reason this was a profitable-seeming venture was because Constantinople had recently fallen to the Ottomans, and therefore the Silk Road was made inaccessible for Europeans.
I never knew that.
The reason nobody else wanted to go Columbus's route was because everyone else knew how big the world *actually* was and knew that trying to get to China by ship was incredibly foolish.
First, no one was heading for China. They were headed for the Spice Islands.
Second, no one was heading for the Spice Islands nonstop. The Portuguese were setting up a chain of resupply stations down the coast of Africa in order to round the Cape of Good Hope and Columbus was planning on doing the same among the islands he knew he'd find west across the Atlantic.
Suggesting that Columbus thought he was going to sail to China nonstop ignores the facts that China wasn't the goal, that Columbus wasn't a complete idiot, and that the people backing him weren't complete idiots either.