Marine Traffic Jam

In the ICW all the Bridges are 65’… Except the Ones that Aren’t! Otherwise Known As Bridge Limbo So all the bridges in the ICW are a minimum of 65′, except when the water is high as in a during a coastal flood or high tide or wind tide or when the Army Corp of Engineers…

We meant to leave early we started to leave early, we tried to leave early, we didn’t manage to get out of the marina early but what with the late night of laundry I didn’t wake up early. In the morning, before we could leave we had to settle up with the marina and we…

Okay so if you didn’t get the idea from the Atlantic City Post the kids were not impressed (other than with “It’s Candy”) there was not much for them there. In Norfolk however, after a quite day recovering from our 30 hour trek and enjoying our inventive Thanksgiving Day dinner we had a nice time.…

Our next jump was from Atlantic City to Norfolk Va. This, is a short transit probably for many experienced sailing crews but for us it would be the first transit that required staying up overnight and working watches all through the night. It was a daunting task considering that the boat is new to us,…

After the small and rather quaint town of Atlantic Highlands we traveled south and made the jump into the open Atlantic Ocean. Here I should confess that this has been a bit of a fear of mine. What will it be like out in the open water? I’ve tried to ignore it and down play…