You've got that exactly right. But I have to tell you that if the winds stay
SW than the L.I. Sound wouldn't be a bad idea since from Plum Gut, you could
take a northwesterly heading and could probably make it to Bridgeport without
tacking.
You may already have this but here's a great link for winds:
http://www.weather.gov/forecasts/wfo/sectors/okxMarineDay.php#tabs
Not nearly 100% accurate but you'll get a decent "approximate" forecast for
winds in this area.
If you have a cruising guide you'll find all the anchorages and marinas in the
Sound from The Race all the way to Cape May.
Let us know what you decide to do and how the trip goes.....
Steve Weinstein
S/V CAPTIVA
1997 Hunter 376, Hull #376
Sailing out of Oyster Bay, NY
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----- Original Message -----
From: William Sellar
To: [email protected]
Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 10:41 AM
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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