Town Moorings
“The gladdest moment in human life, me thinks…is a departure into unknown lands.” ―Sir Richard Burton
We had a great cruise from Block Island to Martha’s Vineyard and arrived just as the wind picked. It was a beautiful day with temperatures in the mid 70s and lots of sunshine.
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July 12 – Edgartown, MA (Martha’s Vineyard)
July 11 – Block Island, RI
Great Salt Pond
We’ve covered a lot of ground in the last week and we’ve started our days very early so we could catch the favorable tide, and now we’ve arrived at our summer destination….New England. Where the days are pleasant and the evenings are cool. We spent today at Block Island catching up with friends on Amici and Magnolia. It was a beautiful day for a walk on the beach, happy hour on the back deck of Amici and dinner at The Oar overlooking Great Salt Pond.
July 10 – Stony Creek, CT
Amici Mooring Ball
“At night, when the sky is full of stars and the sea is still you get the wonderful sensation that you are floating in space.” —Natalie Wood
We always enjoy our stay in Port Washington; it’s a great spot to stop when you head up Long Island Sound. The city really caters to transient boaters. They provide free mooring balls with two town dinghy docks that put you close to any supplies you need. You can also get a pump out and water at the main city dock. The town is full of great little Italian restaurants and pizzerias…our favorite is Salvatore’s. We’ve even taken the train into New York City from here, but our stay this time was short and we headed to New England this morning.
July 8 – Port Washington, NY
Port Washington Mooring Field
The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to purse happiness. You have to catch it yourself. —Benjamin Franklin
The sun comes up early over here…very early. I woke up to the sun steaming in the hatch and thought I’d slept in…only to find out it was 5:45. Oh but what a beautiful morning it was. Since we were up early we got moving so we could catch the tide going through the East River.
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July 7 – Sandy Hook, NJ
Coast Guard Station – Anchorage
“Not all who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
This is a catch up blog, mostly to share pictures from the last few days. I wrote the last four blog entries a week or so ago when I had a little free time. Information and details about places I knew we’d be visiting. Blogging can take more time than I have or want to give some days, but today I’ve had plenty of time. We left Cape May at 3:54 AM for a 15 hour run to NYC…that’s a lot of time to fill. The auto pilot (Otto) does most of the work. All we have to do is keep an eye out for obstacles…he’s not a thinker…I guess you could say he has a one track mind. He has to be supervised like a small child, but he does help us have a more relaxing day.
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July 6 – Cape May, NJ
“Every time I stand before a beautiful beach, its waves seem to whisper to me: If you choose the simple things and find joy in nature’s simple treasures, life and living need not be so hard.” —Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
Cape May is located at the southern tip of Cape May Peninsula in New Jersey, where the Delaware Bay meets the Atlantic Ocean. It has a year-round population of 3,607, but those numbers explode to as many as 40,000 to 50,000 during the summer.
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Cape May, NJ
Coast Guard Station – Anchorage
“It’s about the journey as much as the outcome.” –Author Unknown
One of our favorites stops when we travel through the C&D Canal is Chesapeake City. It has a pretty little waterfront with a free town dock and small protected anchorage. The downtown area has several nice restaurants, a bakery, old homes that are now bed and breakfasts, gift shops and a local historical museum. It’s a popular place with weekender on ski boats, jet skies, pontoon boats and fishing boats…and now that’s all that can navigate the harbor. It has gotten silted in and boats that draw more than three feet will be left grounded at low tide, so this time we had to move on. I hope they dredge the harbor soon…we miss this wonderful stop.
The Chesapeake Bay
“It’s better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times.” —Unknown
I did a post in May 2012 about the Chesapeake Bay and the number of days we’d spent cruising its shorelines. It’s been over four years and even though we’ve spent most of the last two years in Florida, we’ve had a chance to explore even more great places on the Chesapeake Bay. We’ve spent over 175 days on the Bay; we’ve anchored in 23 different anchorages and visited 18 cities and towns. There are many more places we’d like to visit…a cruiser could spend a lifetime on the Bay and never get bored.
July 3 – Baltimore Lighthouses
Anchor Bay East Marina
“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it and join the dance.” –Alan Watts
We had a little work done on the boat while we were away last month, so today we took a shake down cruise to make sure everything was working properly. The work seemed fine, but the bottom definitely had issues. The marina didn’t have a recommendation for a diver to scrape our bottom, so we did a quick haul and had it pressured washed. What a difference a clean bottom and running gear makes…one step closers to cruising on.
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