CO's comments: On our way to Atlantic City we were doing about 10 knots and were passed by a 120' yacht that made us look like we were standing still. The rooster tail had to be at least 6' tall. I would hate to pay that fuel bill.
N39 23.293
W74 24.625
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| Leaving Cape May on 5-21-2011 |
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| View of Atlantic City from the ocean |
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| Our anchorage in Brigantine cove on 5-21-2011 |
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| Looking at Atlantic City from our anchorage |
Atlantic City, NJ, to Anchorage at Cozy Cove on the Toms River; 5-22-2011: We got up early (04:30) to make the 10 hour trip to Sandy Hook, NJ. The weather checked out OK, at least we thought it did, so we were on our way by 05:30. We got outside on the Atlantic and the seas and wind were not as reported. We thought about it (but not too long) and we turned around and went back into the Absecon Inlet and anchored in the harbor to decide what to do. The couple we anchored with last night, "Summer Wind" had not left yet and they were planning on going on the inside using the NJICW. We talked and decided to go with them so we didn't waste another day hanging around. The NJICW was very shallow all the way to our anchorage with depths only 3 to 6 feet deep most of the way and every once in a while we would cheer when we had 10 to 12 feet under the boat. We got to our anchorage about 14:30; a little cove in about 6 feet of water that turned out to be very wavy due to the wind.
CO's comments: The only boats that we saw going out to the Atlantic were 2 - 47' Sea Ray Sundancers. They climbed up on plane and were riding the tops of the 4 to 5 foot waves. If we had tried to pick up our speed and ride the tops of the waves we would been out of fuel real quick.
N39 55.910
W74 08.596
Toms River Anchorage to Metedeconk River Anchorage; 5-23-2011: We slept in this morning after yesterday's long day. The weather is still unpredictable and we only had about a 2 hour window so we only went 14 miles on the NJICW. There were 3 of us in this anchorage. This is the first time we had trouble getting the anchor to hold. We must have tried 6 times before it held. We were in a lot of seaweed and it kept dragging.
N40 03.152
W74 04.045
CO's Comments: I think maybe part of the problem with the anchor not holding is the anchor swivel not working properly. We have not had a problem with anchoring until we put this one on. I will change it as soon as we get to a marina.
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| "Summer Wind" in anchorage on 5-23-2011 |
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| View from our anchorage on 5-23-2011 |
This is the same place we stayed while our boat was being repaired, only we were way down at the garbage end of the marina!! They sure treated us great the 6 days we were there though, they gave us free water cab rides to Manhatten. You can look forward to the prettiest part of the loop starting here, at least thats what we thought. Doug and Joanie
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