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These are all the Blogs posted on Monday, 17 April, 2017.
FL to CT Day 32
Atlantic City, NJ to Bay Head, NJ
Awake at 0530 and checked weather forecast for the day... but before I even turned on computer I could tell we would not be going offshore today. We were probably a mile inland from the beach and I could hear the surf crashing on the beach. Computer weather forecast confirmed it... waves forecast at 3-5 feet and checking weather buoys they were reporting them at 4.9 feet. So, it was sit in Atlantic City for a day and wait for seas to calm down or take the NJ ICW north to Manasquan. We opted to stay inland on the NJ ICW.

We left the dock at 0630 and headed inland toward the NJ ICW passing by Harrah's Casino and the wind farms. It was an hour and half before low tide and we had current against us... although, that really made little difference as the water was so shallow all day that we were rarely moving over 5 knots... most of time we were at idle speed. The depth alarm is set for 5.5 feet and it became so annoying that I finally shut it off.

We had hoped to get to Manasquan early enough to continue on to New York today... but with the shallow water and SLOW speed we decided to stop near Manasquan and continue in the morning when the waves are forecast at 2-3 foot. Also there are no good anchorage areas in Manasquan. We stopped at the southern end of the Point Pleasant Canal in Bay Head, NJ.

We dropped the hook just off the Bay Head Yacht Club and were securely anchored at 1615. N40°03.925', W074°02.967'. We traveled for 9 hours and 45 minutes covering 52.8 nautical miles averaging 5.4 knots.
Posted at 4:55 PM by:Jay
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