Day 22 - but who's counting?

The forecast was for west winds at 15 to 20 knots so we decided to leave Atlantic City and try for Cape May.  It was rainy and lumpy and more on the nose than we expected so we were going upwind with 20 to 25 apparent for most of the day but had good speed.  Luckily it was primarily starboard tack, so we didn't need to tack much.  Since the wind was blowing off shore the waves weren't bad until we got about five miles offshore.  We tacked back inshore when that happened.  We took a lot of spray over the bow and now everything is salt covered.  The cats hunkered down and made it through ok, though Zimmie did try to crawl into the V-berth at one point.  We discouraged that, as that is the part of the boat with the worst motion.  We are now anchored with 12 or 15 other cruisers and will go up Delaware Bay tomorrow.  The anchorage is not large so everyone is anchored close to each other.  The sunset was quite beautiful with the sun peeking through under the cloud deck and we have some stars showing now, so hopefully tomorrow will be a sunnier, dryer day than the past two. 

I have to add an update to yesterday's entry about the 150 power boat we parked behind.  First, Harold was wrong about his estimate about how long it was (I should have known!).  It was only 125 feet!  I found a web link which you might find interesting:
     http://www.charterworld.com/index.html?sub=yacht-charter&charter=mynamoh-1483
Especially the weekly rental rate!





Early on Sunday's sail to Atlantic City, before they all realized they would rather be almost any place else.



One of the few boats we saw traveling today.