ISLAND BOUND 2007!!
Its great to be back on the water yet it is still cold and wet. We sat in Sandy Hook marina for a couple of days due to the windy conditions. I tried to leave on Tuesday rounding the point of Sandy Hook into the Atlantic Ocean only to hit a wall of wind and large waves. The waves were crashing over the bow and we turned around heading back to Sandy Hook for another day. The next morning it was flat calm and we headed for Atlantic City 90 miles away.
As I headed out of New York City I was feeling very low, I was tiered of the cold, wind and rain. I’m exhausted from 1600 miles and living for three months on a 28 ft boat. I’m in need of some space and a little rest from the 10 hours a day on the water. I have to say I really have contemplated selling the boat on e-bay and just calling it quits. Its really been long an hard doing this. It’s very hard for someone to imagine. The Atlantic is unforgiving this time of the year. Think about it we are in a 28 ft boat in the North Atlantic 10 days before the month of December not very appealing to say the least, it’s a far cry from the Islands I imagined. I can only say thank you and I love my Mother. I had given her a call and she listened to my complaining and my down in the mud spirits. She always has the right thing to say to make me go on so my decision to go on goes out to you thank you for being there to listening to me Mothers what would we do with out them??
Sandy Hook was about 25 miles from New York just at the point of the Atlantic ocean. As I was saying we left Sandy Hook on flat seas heading for Atlantic City 90 miles away. The day was great till 1pm. We were making good time till the wind started kicking up and the sea got rough again. We continued till dark and with only 25 miles to go we pushed on with all we had to make it to Atlantic City. At 7 pm we could see the lights of the city but we only had fumes to run on. We started for the harbor and the waves were huge maybe 10 or 15 feet it was becoming gale force winds . The marine radio from the coast guard advised all small craft to get off the ocean immediately. We literally surfed into the harbor trying to keep the boat from going side ways and rolling. As we got into the harbor we tied up and started to clean all the debris up that was on the floor of the boat. It was another 90 miles tacked off on the map. Atlantic City was very cool we stayed at Donald’s place. By that I mean we stayed in the Trump marina owned by Donald Trump. We spent Thanksgiving day there and we headed out to Cape May which was only 34 miles away which would put us into the start of the intercostals waterway and we would be off the Atlantic Ocean till we were in Florida’s South Miami.
We headed out to Cape May on Saturday under decent seas 2 foot waves and a northwest wind. It was smooth sailing just very cold that day around 30 degrees and sunny. We pulled into the Cape May channel and ran down the river to a marina and tied up for the night. We were done with the day by 3 pm and cooking a dinner of chicken sandwiches and fried potatoes. Cape May was a very coastal style town. It comprised of small cottages and dune grass along the shores with many shrimp boats. We had one large shrimp boat that had run aground on off the channel. We talked to them and they just said they would wait for the tide then move into the channel and continue to the marina the were heading for. About 4 hours latter we looked and they were gone. Cape May was like something out of a picture book for sure. The town had a wine festival going on while we were there and so I went down to try some local wines, they were fantastic to say the least. As I rode my bike back to the boat I could tell I had more then I should have. When I got back to the boat I turned in and got ready for the big day tomorrow going the Delaware river to the canal 90 miles away then over to the Chesapeake Bay down to Norfolk Virginia.
Thanks for reading and I will write again soon. P.S Wish you were here S it’s the trip we always talked about. Miss U Skipper Out!!!
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