We held off leaving Atlantic City on Thursday morning October 18 waiting for a more favorable tide since we thought we might cruise on the intracoastal instead of the Atlantic. The winds were expected to be higher than the day before which could make an ocean passage more uncomfortable. And the tides were looking favorable for an inside passage through the skinny New Jersery intracoastal waterway. Jonny kept going back and forth with the decision on which route to take. The ocean passage could be shorter and easier if the seas weren’t too kicked up. The intracoastal passage is shallow and twisty with lots of no wake zones and many bridge openings. He consulted with the local port captain who pointed out that if the ocean passage was too rough we could always duck out after an hour and go into Egg Harbor and pick up the ICW there. So we decided to try the ocean passage.
It turned out to be a great decision! We left Atlantic City at 10 and Jonny hugged the shore since the wind was out of the west. The seas were not at all bad and the weather was sunny enough that we spent most of the day on the fly bridge, though we stayed bundled up against the chilly temperatures. We made good time and arrived at our Cape May anchorage at 3:00.
We spent the rest of the day reading and relaxing.
It was cool enough to warrant our leftover lentil soup and salad for dinner which was much appreciated. Jonny finally turned on the generator so we could have some heat. That evening we watched one of the movies Andy loaned us, an enjoyable British feel-good movie called A Street Cat Named Bob.
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