Brigantine, NJ

We left our Cape May anchorage on Wednesday, August 19 at 7:55. Our destination would either be Atlantic City or, if the seas were more favorable, go all the way to the Barnegat Inlet. The day started out nicely and we cruised north on the Atlantic along the New Jersey coast for a couple of pleasant hours.   But after that the weather quickly deteriorated and it started to pour.  We quickly closed all our Stratoglass as the thunder, lightening and intense rain enveloped us.  It came down in buckets for a couple of hours.  Thankfully, the seas were not too kicked up so we hunkered down, still on the fly bridge, and rode it out.  

Eventually the huge rain cell passed over us and the rain stopped.  Needless to say, we chose to end our cruise for the day in Atlantic City rather than go another four plus hours after the stress of cruising through that storm.  We decided to anchor in a beautiful spot outside of Atlantic City called Brigantine.

There was one other sailboat anchored there and another one with no one on it. We dropped anchor and settled in to take it easy for the afternoon. Just as Jonny was going down to take a nap, a couple in a dinghy motored up to us. They had been alerted to our presence by the couple who had the same boat as ours in the last anchorage.  This couple, Warren and Bobbie, were on a big 48 foot sailboat and were contemplating buying a trawler. We invited them on board to see Zendo, momentarily forgetting about Covid distancing and masking.  Because we are all pretty isolated on our boats in these lonely anchorages, we proceeded anyway keeping our distance as much as possible.

Afterwards, Jonny went for a paddle in this lovely setting.

Lynn prepared what turned out to be a delicious dinner of seared scallops (from the fish market in Cape May) with garlic and capers over angel hair pasta.  

It looked like we would have another rainstorm but fortunately the rain never made it all the way to us. In the evening we watched the third night of the Democratic Convention our our little IPAD.