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.