Wow! Last night we sat on deck just looking across at the casinos lit up. It really was an impressive sight but we could not get a good picture of it. Unlike this morning, we woke to large fishing boats motoring by, lots of trash floating in the water, and the low tide smell was terrible. Next time we would definitely skip Atlantic City by water.
We were up at 6:30, still mostly dark, and could not leave because our starboard running light is out and we have not been able to get a bulb to fit. So at 7:30, engine & instruments on and ....OMG the depth reading was flashing 0.0-0.1. Well ,we tried to move slightly forward and the boat remained at the dock. So....engine off, instruments off, and we sat to have cereal and wait for the tide to come in, trying to ignore the odorous emmanations coming from the area. An hour later the depth was reading 0.5 so Peter moved forward and it was just enough to turn to starboard and get into the small channel.
Once out into the Atlantic conditions were perfect. The water was relatively calm, 1-2' rolling waves, partly sunny, warm air, and 10k winds from WSW. We had both sails up for quite a while while motor sailing and made the 33-35 NM in a record 5 hours. Our speed was 7-8k most of the way. We are at a nice little marina, South Jersey, which has a washer/dryer which we were anxious to use. We have been on the boat now for 8 days and only off on land 3 times.
It looks like we will be here for a few days now because the weather is turning. Small craft warnings out for Fri & Sat. and the wind is wrong for travelling the Delaware River. We will poke around Cape May, do some grocery shopping, and clean.
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