Sandy Hook Bay

Friday September 6, 2013
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We rode the tide perfectly today, starting engines at 10:30 AM and arriving at the Atlantic Highlands fuel dock at 3PM - 38 NM in 4.5 hours is an average speed of 8.4 kts! We topped out at 11.7 kts alongside Roosevelt Island. Not bad for an old girl. We have now completed 4 round trips past Manhattan on the East River. I recon that I could just about do it without charts.

This bugger overtook us!

We filled up with fuel at the Atlantic Highlands marina. It is one of those places that always seems to have the best price - today $3.73 per gallon. We then headed back out into the bay and anchored for the night, within a couple of miles of the entrance to the Atlantic.

Its been a perfect day - sunny, calm but cool. The forecast for tomorrow is good for the coastal Atlantic. Summer is "officially over" in the USA and the general consensus is that cruisers like us need to get into the Chesapeake by September 15. Tomorrow will be a long day for us, 11+ hours, so we will be up early and moving at first

Cool fire tug

light.

We have reserved a slip in Baltimore for a month. It seems a bit late to be so far North in mid November, but the MTOA Rendezvous is in October and many of our friends will be there. So if we get cold, we will have company.