Boat
Cape May
We departed Summit North Marina at 0540 this morning (ugh) and arrived in Cape May NJ at 1440. It was a really great ride, following seas, North winds, rocketed down the Delaware Bay at light speed…until we made the turn to the Cape May canal and played chicken with a ferry, we lost. We planned … Continue reading
First Two Days cont.
We planned for a short second day so we slept in a bit, awoke to sunshine and deer walking on the beach. We had some breakfast, reviewed our plan and got underway. It was very windy, 15-20 knots with gusts to 25, and very choppy confused seas. We took a few waves over the bow … Continue reading
First Two Days
All seems to be going well! We left Herrington Harbour North Marina on the first of June and headed up the Chesapeake Bay. We motor sailed most of the way to our first destination, Still Pond (and it was). The weather was good in the morning but a line of thunder storms blew through in … Continue reading
Departure Day
Everything seems to be in order (knock knock) for our departure today. Yesterday we motored down to the South Marina for fuel, checked all the fluids, topped off water, got ice and checked weather. Weather report is, hot, but we’ll have South winds so that will be nice, hopefully we will get the sails up. … Continue reading
Solar and Head
…are done (for the trip North). The solar installation was a bear but we learned alot. Actually wiring the panels all the way down to the batteries was the easy part. Mounting the panels and getting them up on the davits was the challenge. Running wires from the panels to the controller: Mounted and wired: Everything … Continue reading