Delaware River.
As we were told at the briefing meeting the previous afternoon, the forecast for crossing the Delaware Bay to Cape May was the best that Tim, the dockmaster, had seen all year. It might also be that his marina was fully booked that night and he needed to be sure there was space for everyone!
We cruised down the Delaware Bay in a following sea. The weather was sunny but quite chilly. We both had to keep adding layers to keep warm. We made great time, however, and the current didn’t turn against us until the last hour of our journey.
Along the way, we passed the Ship John Shoal lighthouse as well as part of the shoal it was protecting us from.
The current continued to slow us down as we entered the Cape May Canal where we made our way up to the funky dock of the little Miss Chris Marina to buy fuel.
After that we headed to our pleasant anchorage off of the Coast Guard Station beyond Cape May, where we could hear training exercises from the Coast Guard for the rest of the day. Although we love visiting Cape May, we decided to forego it this time.
Lynn continued updating the blog from the Philly visit which she was finding to be increasingly frustrating because she couldn’t get it loaded because 1) we had a poor internet connection as 2) there were too many photos.
In the meantime, she also made a new pork tenderloin dinner recipe with a warm spice rub that turned out to be quite good! We enjoyed it with this view of a beautiful sunset.
That evening, Jonny did some more trip planning and due to an excellent of forecast of calm seas, we decided to leave the next day at 6 a.m. and see how far we can make it up the Jersey Coast.
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