Jean decided to stay home so I returned to Cape May with a new crew of friends and neighbors - Doug Bauer, Dick Hodskins and Dan Tipton. We arrived at Cape May in mid-afternoon, replenished provisions, went to dinner and prepared for the trip north. The first day out was another of those sails to remember. Up the Jersey shore with a westerly wind. We used Dick's cruising chute and made great time. As night fell, we took the chute down and went to the jib. Our target was to reach Sandy Hook by daybreak the next day and we had to shorten sail in the middle of the night to slow us down from arriving too early. We traveled up through New York Harbor past the Statute of Liberty and up the East River with the current. By late afternoon we were a ways down Long Island Sound and after a brief fuel stop sailed all night passing through The Race just after dawn. That evening we stopped at Kingman Marine, just south of Cape Cod where we had dinner with my mother & brother and his family.
 |
| Dan at helm off New Jersey |
The next day we traveled through the Cape Cod Canal and spent the night in Gloucester in the same place as we had stopped on our first day out 9 months before. The next day's weather was good with a bad days forecast after that so we arose before dawn and sailed all the way to Portland, arriving before dinner. It was June 20th. Shortly thereafter we received an endorsement from our insurance extending our below Montauk date to the 10th! So much for snail mail.
In all from June to June we had traveled almost 5000 miles on Trader.
No comments:
Post a Comment