This blog will chronicle our (Pat and Patty Anderson's)
cruising adventures on the Great Loop!
Day 58 - May 28, 2017
No photos today, sorry! Today we cruised from the Cohansey River to Wildwood, New Jersey. Tonight we are at Schooner Island Marina, where we are sitting in the cockpit of Daydream under our camperback with the electric heater blasting because it is cold and raining like crazy!
Everything the Delaware River was yesterday the river and bay were NOT today! We understand that 10-15 knot winds and 1-2 foot waves is a good day on the Delaware River and Delaware Bay, but if this was a good day, we are sure glad we will not have to cruise here on a bad day, because these "good" conditions were downright uncomfortable. Enough said about that, and we are now SUPER grateful for the conditions we had yesterday!
Cape May was a nightmare. Coming in the Cape May Canal, which is not all that wide, we learned that N.J. boaters like to take their half out of the middle, and run their big boats crazy fast, throwing off huge wakes. The harbor was like a washing machine, probably half wind and half wakes from New Jersey boaters. The harbor police were very busy, since the entire harbor is a no wake zone, which evidently nobody from New Jersey knew. The best anchorages, which are in front of the Coast Guard Station were unavailable because they were filled up with dredging barges. So we pushed on.
We looked at a potentially promising anchorage at Sunset Lake in Wildwood, but then we read on Active Captain that Sunset Lake is subject to an anchoring ban. Fortunately, right past Sunset Lake there are a few marinas right on the New Jersey Intracoastal Waterway. We called Schooner Island, and they were able to accommodate us for the night. A good thing, too, because as soon as I came back from the office to register, it started raining and it hasn't stopped. It would have been miserable anchoring and having to kayak Baxter to shore and back.
Like Russ Portner texted, "Some nights the cocktails taste better, or maybe they are just more necessary!" Tonight is one of those nights!
I noticed on the weather that you would be on the north edge of the bad weather as it came across to the east coast. Yes, some nights are just easier at a dock. It seems like you have lucked out with lower temperatures than it could have been.
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