NYC Bound

At Sea
N 39 30 W 74 11

We left this morning expecting light winds in the morning and a fresher breeze after noon. In fact, we had the opposite. Leaving the Cape May inlet we had a brisk 15-20 NW breeze. Ah the thrill of putting out to sea. We always love it.

Within an hour though the breeze stopped. We were forced to motor for much of the day. I know I wrote in the blog that I don't use the motor at sea, but today was the exception.

Around 19:00 the NW wind picked up again and we're tooling right along at 6 knots. I don't think it will last all night but we'll see.

If we can make it to the Verazzano Bridge by 10:00 tomorrow, we'll have a favorable current to carry us up the Hudson. If we miss that, we'll probably anchor overnight at Sandy Hook.

Our course takes us up the NJ coast, never more than 10 miles off shore. However, the NJ coast is boring. Just fishing trawlers and barges out here. There are a few inlets where we could put in if a storm came, but they don't sound interesting.

I did learn one thing by listening to the local radio stations. A poll of NJ residents say that they prefer that Tony Soprano should not get whacked in the finale episode but that he should go straight instead. Well, now you heard the word from the horses mouth.