WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 2012
We
knew we were going to have to leave early to catch the tide on our way to Ventnor
City so guess who was up at 5:00 a.m.
It finally got light enough for us to leave the slip at a little after
5:30 a.m. I was up almost all
night worrying about getting out of the slip without hitting the extremely expensive,
45-foot sportfish next to us. The swift
current would be pushing against us, there was a pretty fast wind blowing us
toward the other boat and I was
just worried since TRAVELLER doesn’t back up very well in the first place. I knew Gary would have a good plan but
you know me, I was worried anyway.
Well, we slid right down the poles that our stern lines were on and
backed up pretty as you please.
See there was nothing to worry about. We wore our headsets so Gary told me what to do and I did
it. Boy, was I worried, but we got
out of the slip with no trouble at all.
How about a set of sunrise pictures?
We were really making good time with the current pushing us along at 8.5 mph. Now we saw what we missed last time we came through here in the fog following that catamaran with radar. We didn't miss much since both sides of the Intracoastal were marsh. The only thing remotely interesting was the distant Atlantic City skyline. Atlantic City got closer and closer.
We kept right on going through Atlantic City with the casinos and enormous wind turbines.
Of course I couldn't resist taking another picture of the Ventnor City watertower and the houses by the water before we stopped in the anchorage. The tide was dropping and we didn't want to chance running aground by going farther. We traveled 25 miles in 4 hours and 21 minutes. Our total mileage now is 2558.
Since I started out with a sunrise picture, I decided to end with a sunset picture and also a picture of Atlantic City from the anchorage.
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