Wonderful Weather

          We're at a marina near Baltimore waiting to get hauled for annual maintenance. Carol is off on her first week of working. Someplace warmer than here.

          As mentioned in my previous post the weather has been unsettled. No major storms but rain, fog, showers nearly every day. Blah.

          We left Port Washington 24 September intending to go all the way to Cape May, NJ. Nope. After going under the Narrows-Veranzano Bridge we noticed we were sinking. Not good. We had a leak in a raw water cooling hose. The leak was after the pump so the cooling water was not going through the heat exchanger but into the bilge. In a sailboat raw (salt) water cools the anti-freeze which circulates through the engine. So we limped on one engine into Atlantic Highlands, Sandy Hook, NJ. Three dirty hours of belt changing and hose trimming got us ready to go again the next day.

          We headed out about noon on the 25th for a 19 hour overnight passage to Cape May, arriving in the morning of the 26th. It was a mostly calm, non-eventful passage except for fog near the end. That fog kept us in port until the 28th when we headed up Delaware Bay. We had some fog and some showers but mostly it was calm and we had the current the whole way. Only 8 hours in the Bay! That's unbelievably fast! The passage totalled 10 hours and at the end, in Chesapeake City we had dinner with Bob and Jane Fulton and three other couples we met there. Before meeting here Bob and Jane knew only us and us only them. Old friends, new friends, good food, a good time. That's cruising!

          Passages to Bodkin Creek went easy just a continuation of the unsettled weather. Hoping it's going to be good for working this coming week in Pasadena, MD.

Photo is from our passage through NYC where Heather took photos of us going by.