MONDAY, MAY 21, 2012
When we went to bed last night there were
VERY low lying clouds that didn’t reach all the way to the ground. They were still there when I checked at
3:30 a.m. but gone by the time we pulled anchor at 6:30 a.m.
The Intracoastal near Atlantic City is
house after house right on the waterway.
Almost all of the houses have boat slips. Some of the slips were under the houses, some were in front
of them and some were beside them.
We had to open three bridges in a little over two miles in the Atlantic
City area. Our mast is 16.5 feet
high and these bridges were 9 feet, 10 feet and 4 feet (the railroad
bridge). You can see the Atlantic
City skyline behind the first bridge.
We passed extremely close to the huge wind
turbines from yesterday. They were
right on the edge of the waterway.
You can see the clouds descending to cover the top of the casino in the
background.
Weather was the word of the day. We traveled through mostly uninhabited
territory with rainclouds building until it started to pour.
Then the fog closed in on us. It got so thick that we anchored by a
red marker for a little while.
While we were anchored, a catamaran with what looked like a trawler on
top came by us. Gary said he’s
never seen a boat like that. We
noticed it had radar so we quickly pulled anchor and followed it through the
fog. We made sure we followed our
chartplotter. We thought that if
he came across another boat we would see him swerve to miss it or slow
down. That would give us time to
dodge it too.
Our plans were go into a marina just to
get diesel and a pumpout. The thick fog was making it very hard to follow the
markers so we decided to take a slip for the night. It was raining again so we decided to wait for the fuel and pumpout
until tomorrow. We came into Beach
Haven YC Marina where Chris helped us into the slip in the rain. He offered to let us use his car to go
to the grocery store if we needed to.
His girlfriend’s mother owns the place. They live at the end of the dock
with two nice dogs and a mean one according to him. You might know the littlest dog is the mean one.
We walked around town for a little while
in the drizzle. I will take more
pictures tomorrow. Hopefully it
won’t be rainy then.
We walked to the beach about 5 blocks
away. It didn’t look too
rough. I stood with my back to the
ocean and took a picture of one of the streets that goes all the way to the water
on the other side of the island.
We traveled for 4 hours and 4 minutes and
covered 26 miles. Today the fog and shallow water slowed us down.
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