We made it home!
After chasing the bad weather and stopping in Atlantic Highlands we headed through the City, New York City. We were not sure we could get going because the forecast was a little shaky but it was okay at daybreak.
We had the current with us so the trip through the city went pretty quick. They were just attaching the spire of Freedom Tower One, World Trade Center as we were going by.
Hell Gate was with us so we squirted out of the city and then into Long Island Sound a little later at Throgs Neck Bridge.
We started to go into Manhasset Bay, Port Washington but changed our minds a few minutes in. We decided to go to Oyster Bay because it was still pretty early in the morning. We anchored there for two nights because we had the opportunity to visit old friends and go out to lunch with them. THANKS Nina and Guy!
From there we went to Port Jefferson, LI, NY. We got there early and went ashore for the farmer's market and lunch. We hadn't been ashore there in quite a long time. While there it got very windy but when we left the next day the wind was right on the stern so we couldn't sail without many gybes. We don't do that. We called it a day early again and stopped at Mattituck, LI, NY. Again, we went ashore for the first time in many a year. The wind died at sunset but picked up again before sunrise.
Our last day underway on our winter cruise of 2012-2013 started off pretty boisterous. Four foot seas with the wind out of the north at 18+ knots. We almost couldn't sail because of our course angle and a lee shore to starboard. The wind was supposed to be more NW, not N. That's the way it usually goes for us. We were making good time even with the current turning against us. 7-8 knots at times. We were about halfway along Plum Island when we were forced to turn towards Fisher's Island Sound and start the engines. It had been a very long time since we sailed with no engine assist.
It calmed down as we neared home. It also got cloudier and colder. Brrrr.
Home on our mooring in Mystic at noon!
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Cape May
We are now in Cape May, NJ. And it's miserable. Yesterday was miserable, too.
Boating is miserable. Okay, not really. Just yesterday. And maybe the next couple of days. It's made worse because we're really only a few days from home and we cannot leave. Foggy. Windy. Rough seas. And very slow moving weather system.
Yesterday we made the passage from the C & D Canal to here. It started off nice. We left at 0500 in the dark with a great current. We flew out of the canal to get to Delaware Bay and actually sailed down the Bay for five hours. Unfortunately it was another six hours to go after that. We bashed into three foot seas into the wind and this makes for a slow speed over ground. This was the better part of the six hours because...
After we got to the western end of the Cape May Canal entrance we had to go around the cape. We can't go through the canal because of 55ft bridges so we try to sneak around the cape inside all the reefs just a few hundred feet offshore. We've done it before but not into 20kt winds and 6ft seas and against the current. Three hours to go about eight miles. Miserable.
Now it's blowing in the harbor at near 20 AND visibility is about 100 feet. Stuck. Outside it's 5-7 ft seas from the direction we want to go. Stuck.
We're only a week away from Mystic but the week doesn't start until we start out of here.
Miserable.
Boating is miserable. Okay, not really. Just yesterday. And maybe the next couple of days. It's made worse because we're really only a few days from home and we cannot leave. Foggy. Windy. Rough seas. And very slow moving weather system.
Yesterday we made the passage from the C & D Canal to here. It started off nice. We left at 0500 in the dark with a great current. We flew out of the canal to get to Delaware Bay and actually sailed down the Bay for five hours. Unfortunately it was another six hours to go after that. We bashed into three foot seas into the wind and this makes for a slow speed over ground. This was the better part of the six hours because...
After we got to the western end of the Cape May Canal entrance we had to go around the cape. We can't go through the canal because of 55ft bridges so we try to sneak around the cape inside all the reefs just a few hundred feet offshore. We've done it before but not into 20kt winds and 6ft seas and against the current. Three hours to go about eight miles. Miserable.
Now it's blowing in the harbor at near 20 AND visibility is about 100 feet. Stuck. Outside it's 5-7 ft seas from the direction we want to go. Stuck.
We're only a week away from Mystic but the week doesn't start until we start out of here.
Miserable.
Sunday, May 5, 2013
Out of the Chesapeake
We have left Annapolis after three weeks. Sightseeing, shopping, maintenance, and flying off to work all accomplished.
Small craft advisories for the beginning of this passage but not too bad. More significant were the headwinds and adverse current. Made for a slow day but we are now in Chesapeake City on the C & D Canal. It's only a short distance from Delaware and about 3 hours from Delaware Bay. We head down the Bay towards Cape May, NJ tomorrow. Not anyones favorite passage. And, as usual, the weather won't exactly be great.
Probably be stuck in Cape May because many days of rain are coming.
Small craft advisories for the beginning of this passage but not too bad. More significant were the headwinds and adverse current. Made for a slow day but we are now in Chesapeake City on the C & D Canal. It's only a short distance from Delaware and about 3 hours from Delaware Bay. We head down the Bay towards Cape May, NJ tomorrow. Not anyones favorite passage. And, as usual, the weather won't exactly be great.
Probably be stuck in Cape May because many days of rain are coming.
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