Wednesday, May 25th We got an early start with sails up and went out to play around the ships anchored in the channel. The day was again beautiful but we were fighting the tide and decided to pull into Fairlee Creek. We were hoping to get some groceries and laundry. We did get the laundry done, but no stores around here. Tomorrow we will go at least to Chesapeake City and perhaps do the C&D canal if the conditions are with us. Anyway, we will be saying so long to the Chesapeake Bay.
Thursday, May 26th We are in the Summit North Marina this afternoon off the C & D. It is again hot and humid and we really had very little wind. We played with a couple of ships in the channel. As there is no place to pull over at the Delaware end of the C & D we decided this was our stop. We found Mosey here in the marina. We know Mosey from Georgetown, Exumas.
Friday, May 27th We finally found food! Bill was getting worried. We left the Summit North Marina at 6:30 am and had the tide with us as soon as we entered the C & D canal. Once into the Delaware Bay, we had the wind too. We were thinking about making Cape May. The boat saw 8 plus knots, averaging 7 plus and as the wind was getting stronger we decided to go into the Cohansey River. I feel like I have come home. This is the dock where we huddled in front of the dryers in October 2009 to stay warm. Everyone is still so friendly. Bill gave us the use of his car, and we went into Bridgeton :NJ (with the help of our Garmin) and purchased food. What great people!! Tomorrow is Cape May, weather permitting. We are working out of our Northern cruising guide and are ready to break out our northern district charts -- home is getting closer and closer. I just need to get through the hardest part of our journey, New Jersey.
Saturday, May 28, 2011 We waited for the tide to exit the Cohansey River and pushed the boat off the dock at 8:15 am. We had a great ride with the tide for the first 20 miles, then it was a ride against the tide and the southerly wind blowing 20 knots. The wind turned up the bay so the final 17 miles were wild and wet. And the Cape May canal has really shoaled in--that low water alarm never shut up. We are anchored off the Coast Guard station again. It is the same place we anchored two years ago when we came down. We can hear the troops marching and calling. We saw the M/V Barbara pass us by in the harbor. We saw that trawler in Two Way Marina in Brunswick GA. We also have noted that the Canadian boats there were anchored in Hampton Roads and then with us along the Chesapeake are here also. We have befriended a British couple who have friends in Kittery Point. Tomorrow we hope to move on to Atlantic City.
Sunday, May 29th Here we are anchored in front of all the huge casino resorts and the Coast Guard station in Atlantic City. The long holiday weekend has brought out all the boaters and they are really stirring up the waters around us. We are not leaving the boat for shore as the waters are just too choppy. We had a nice sail down from Cape May with the tide pushing us and a 10 knot wind adding its power. We realized today as we opened new charts that we are really heading North and quite fast. We spoke with Release and Skipper too yesterday who are in Vermont. We are missing them. Tomorrow, weather permitting, it is on to Manasquan Inlet or the Shark River depending upon running conditions.
The Neighborhood Watering Hole
Anchoring off Atlantic City
Atlantic City at night
Monday, May 30, 3011 The last day of Memorial Day weekend and the boaters paradise. We hauled the anchored at 6:15 and started out of the channel before all the fisherman and pleasure cruisers could stir up the waters too much. We had listened to NOAA but when we got out about 15 miles we saw obvious storm clouds. Yes, Tstorms at 7:30 west of us. We somehow managed to avoid them and a bad situation as they were creating 35 knot winds. Around noon the wind came up to give us some push in the butt (we have had Southerly winds, falling seas for 2 days). We discovered Shark Rover Inlet, 59 miles from Atlantic City, and headed for it;. A bascule bridge, tricky entrance, was just inside the harbor, but the tender was great and opened immediately and then gave us navigation instructions to the anchorage.; Here we are in another beautiful place and tomorrow we will head for Sandy Hook and the end of our New Jersey run. The best news of our day however was that our Grandpuppy Gus is getting better!!! Yeah!.
Tuesday, May 31st We found a gem for an anchorage in Shark River. What a small, pretty place with all the information we would want from the bridge tender and another boater. We had to pull a few bushels of kelp off our anchor line and then hauled anchor to head for Atlantic Highlands. It is good that we were no going too many miles because the wind was out of the north right on our bow--no sails--and the tide was against us too. Anyway, with some low water alarms going off and a very high mooring fee, we are here in Atlantic Highlands. It is not the place we found two years agao. We anchored then, but no room for a good anchor now. They have added moorings to the field and are charging very dearly for them. We will supply tomorrow and then, weather permitting, head out through New York City and the Long Island Sound.,
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