Southbound Sailing

     Southbound! And sailing! Wow!

     We are off the coast of New Jersey as I write this. Close enough to get a wi-fi signal. And we're sailing.

     We had a slightly rough first few days after leaving Mystic. Big head seas to Mattituck and then way bigger following seas to Oyster Bay. Decent speed however.

     From Oyster Bay we went through New York Harbor to Atlantic Highlands, NJ. NYC and the East River - Hell Gate passage was mostly uneventfull for a change. only one stop to avoid a ferry and one log that went between the hulls without contact, or even being seen.

      

     Freedom Tower under construction. We had a great view of it from the anchorage at Atlantic Highlands. This isn't that view.

     We stayed a few extra days there because of offshore head wimds and pretty big seas. There was also a major front forecast with storms. The storms just missed us but the winds didn't. Heather took advantage of this delay to take a ferry from Manhattan to stay with us for the weekend. Yay!

     Now we have relatively small waves but they'll likely get bigger later. The wind will shift to on the nose later, too. We are on a very long passage. It's one we haven't done before at all at once. We are going (hopefully) from Atlantic Highlands all the way to the C & D Canal in one shot. It's at least a 30 hour trip, maybe more. We'll be going around Cape May in the dark. Risky? Maybe a little. We'll write if we don't make it. Errr... maybe not.

    

     Roosevelt Island Tram over the East River.