Wednesday - June 22, 2011

Lat 39 22 74; long 74 25 55; eng 880.24, 150 gallons, State Marina

We left at 7:30 in order to get around Sandy Hook an. It was also going to be a long day since it was a run of around 80 nm to get to into the NYC Channels and the marina we decided to stay. Running at around 9.5 knots would get us there around 4. We had to leave Atlantic City today because the weather is going to change on Thursday and idt looked like we might be stuck there for several days. So off we went. Again, it was a little bit of a chore running the inlet out of Atlantic City since the seas were coming straight in, but once we got out we set our course and simply followed the rout we set up. There was no excitement along the trip and we arrive at the marina around 4.

Brenda phoned the marina in the morning and booked a reservation. They told her they only had fixed docks. No problem we thought as we had tied up at a lot of fixed docks. The problem was that there was no way of getting off the boat since there was no side docks. You could only go off onto the main dock by way of a ladder. This meant you had to back in to the main dock, but with a single engine boat this was not feasible especially since each slip was very narrow. So we went in bow first and tied up, making sure the falling tide would not rip our bowsprit off when the tide went down. We had to keep the boat about 3 feet from the dock so there was no way to get on the dock without a majestic leap. In addition, with a tidal drop of around 6 feet, the leap would have been up as the docks were built above the boat. We couldn’t even hook up the electrical cords so we used our generator. Would not come back here again. In addition, the help simply looped the front lines and took off.