Category: Transport

Dragged anchor in the night, found myself up against a megayacht at zero dark thirty in something North of a gale.

 The captain came up and graciously moved his gin palace while I fended off, both in our PJ’s.  Fifty degrees and soaking wet, I think these are called retirement benefits.

 We had to move and re-anchor as we were too close into the shore, so I spent the next few hours on “Anchor Watch “ to make sure we were OK.  I finally turned in at daybreak (about five thirty), by then the wind was dropping.

 Surprisingly, I did not take the camera on this adventure so the written transcript will have to suffice.

The rest of the day was a non-event, except for the strange repetitive noise heard emerging from the bilge, about noon I finally tracked it down to a malfunctioning bilge pump.  I replaced it with one of the spares onboard and all was quiet by one pm.

All these spare parts were somewhat mocked by person who shall be nameless (why do you need five toolboxes?) but when needs must…….

 Fast asleep by 8:30 pm.  More tomorrow.

“Violent thunderstorms with damaging winds and hail.”  Nice forecast to start the day.    Well we said we did not have a schedule.

 Storm passed through around noon, this was our neighbor the steel trawler, he’s only about two hundred feet away.

Continue reading “Tom’s River – Thursday June 13”

Still hanging on the hook, winds of alarming velocity, today we were planning to take the dinghy ashore for provisions (beer is getting down to panic levels) but could not find a time where launching it into the water was an option rather than having it go airborne.

A brave group of lads were about earlier, when the wind was still somewhere short of gale force, they rigged one of the local cat boats and did two terrifying tacks across the river.

Continue reading “Tom’s River -Wednesday June 12”

Sunday June 9

Still inside today but good progress, made it from Atlantic City to Tom’s River (north end of Barnegat Bay)  Probably all we could have done offshore and a lot easier on the boat, probably about 70 miles (as the crow might do it) more for us given all the twists and turns of the ICW.

 The boat is now home so to speak, Marine Traders were sold out of Bay Head New Jersey, just up the river from here.

 Not many pictures today, forgot to take the camera up top this morning, so just these two of Tom’s River (officially it does not rate an apostrophe but it should).

A few classic sailboats

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Catching up here, weather uniformly awful last week. This was news on Saturday June 8.

Did not go outside yesterday (Friday), tropical storm Andrea got in the way. We were holed up in Pecks Creek about halfway between Cape May and Atlantic City.  Safe but nothing much to see from there.
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