I've done the trip a couple of times and from the canal just head for the Chesapeake and have had to motor sail down because the winds haven't shifted seasonally yet. I figure if the long range forecast turns bad the course can be changed for Atlantic City or Cape May to duck in. I have also done the LIS route without stopping and timed going through the race. Fun trip but I'm usually trying to get there quickly. Best trip was northbound 3 yrs ago. Five days to the hour from Atlantic Yacht Basin(ICW mile 11) to the dock in Rockland, ME with an overnight stop in Provincetown. I would suggest that if you run the NJ coast stay off about 20 miles to avoid fish weirs at night and in my experience it is a smoother ride. Bob PDQ 36 Peace
_____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of William Sellar Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 10:42 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Liveaboard] Anchorages & Marinas Cape Cod to Cape May Thanks for the several replies. We are looking to move south soon. We have smelled a lot of roses and are now looking to make some time, although we may have to hang out somewhere waiting for a weather window, so I'd rather get stuck in a nice place than a dump. We will be on the east coast for a while, so still time to catch "must see" places next year. We are on a sailboat and we are getting a lot of wind on the nose. Going from Cape Cod to Cape May is a trip we might do, but looks like we can only get a fair wind for part of it. I hate motoring into a head wind and seas at slow speed. So it looks like I will have to break this up. Trying to figure the longest jumps I can do within available weather/wind windows. We are currently in Falmouth on the south side of Cape Cod about 50 miles from Block Island and 170 miles from Sandy Hook. I had wanted to go outside Long Island, though Norm and Steve Weinstrin make it seem like I should reconsider that. The wind pattern has been a lot of SW, the direction we need to go. looks like we might get north to east on Sunday for 24 hours, so could move down to Block, Fisher or Long Island. If we could get a bigger window we would run all the way to Sandy Hook from here. It looks like Atlantic Highlands is the place to wait for a window to run the Jersey coast and it looks like Atlantic City is the only safe duck-in on this coast. So Thanks everyone for suggestions Bill
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