6:15 AM up and movin and groovin- beautiful day cool morning..going to 80's
6:30 AM- Ken took the motor off the dinghy and put it back on the boat...scary job!
7:00 AM- left the mooring
7:20 AM- straight ahead, all kinds of people looking like they are walking on water..some kind of race going on...all on surf boards or something that looks like surfboards and they are paddling towards us....we move over to the other side of the River to give them room...had to be a couple hundred in this race...have no idea which one or what the cause...but interesting to watch them....
Corps of Engineers vessel came by and was picking up large pcs of wood,etc floating in the River...can cause real damage to boats....had a crane or lift that they use.
9:15 AM- just went under the Verrazano Bridge - heading to Sandy Hook, NJ... strange
breakwall and entry into anchorage....sailboats on moorings, water taxi taking people to their boats,etc...we follow the markers into the gas pump dock...got gas @ $3.70/gal. only needed 6 1/2 gal...got some ice and we were going to stay there for the night and get an early start tomorrow to go down the Jersey Shoreline....but wether is starting to be a factor....thunder storms for late Sat. and Sunday and into Monday....see how far we can get...there are only 3 places to tuck into betwee Sandy Hook and Cape May, NJ...we chose Manasquan Inlet...we actually ck'd this area out last Fall...very shallow....so we go in between large rock jetty's..small channel.It's around 4 PM and lots of fishing boats are headed in and we have no idea where we are going...nothing on the charts to help us...so as we are going in the water gets shallower and shallower...4 ft at one point...so Ken does a u-turn and we start heading out the way we came in...now Atlantic City is another 10 hr ride for us,that would be an overnite ride and the wind has picked up and I had a bad feeling about it...so I get on the radio (ch 16) and say this is the Gypsy Wind in the Manasquan Inlet looking for a slip or place to stay for the night....a guy gets on and says come to the yacht club straight ahead before the train bridge...so now Ken does another u-turn back in and we go slow and see a dock with a gas pump, I said Ken head over there...so he does and the current and wind is horrible....we get into the dock...the marina owner put us in the slip next to the pump.etc..so they finally get us tied up and we just say "Thank you Lord" can't do this trip without you...that's for sure...so now we are again by RR tracks and everytime they lift that stinkin drawbridge, they have a whistle that sounds like one of those old whistle toys used for New Years...such a funny whistle, but you know what it is for...to lower the bridge to let the train go by....great, just great...more train noise, the water is slapping against the boat, but hopefully it will rock me to sleep in a few minutes....we hope to get an early start tomorrow to at least get to Atlantic City.....before the storm hits....
After our showers we walked to a restaurant down the street "Sand Bar" had an outside bar, we ate at and it was neat overlooking the harbor and boats,etc...had the best huge shrimp cocktail that I have had in a long time...Ken and I shared it...there goes that train....we had fish and chips and seafood platter....good, but I like the ones at home better...there goes that whistle again..holy cow...gonna be a rough night at this point...almost 10PM and rocking and rolling and noisy,,,but we are safe and that's what matters...
hope all are well and be back soon!
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