Atlantic Highlands, New York lower harbour
Scott-Free’s blog
Steve & Chris
Tue 12 Jul 2011 23:33
40:25.078N
74:01.82W
Wednesday 13th July
2011
Distance run: 179
nmiles
Anchor up at 0730 on
Tuesday to catch the tide for an overnight run down the Delaware Bay, round Cape
May and out into the Atlantic for a run up the New Jersey coast and into New
York lower harbour.
It was a fast run
down the Delaware with a fair tide most of the way that saw the SOG reach 9
knots for some of the time. Oh that we could do that kind of speed
normally!
Boat speed 7.49
knots, Speed over the ground 9 knots, with 14.5 knots of wind over the starboard
quarter- a lovely sail.
We reached Cape May
at the turn of the tide, but the sea was not too bubbly over the shoals and we
were soon heading up the coast. As night fell, the lights of Atlantic City
could be seen for miles, but the call of the casinos was not very loud for us
and the wind and tide were being kind so we were happy to sail on by.
By mid-morning we
were heading into the lower harbour at New York, but as the city is still
some 15 miles on from the entrance, we could only just make out the
buildings of greater New York in the distance.
A first glimpse of New York in the
distance.
We rounded Sandy Hook and picked up a buoy in Atlantic
Highlands on the New Jersey coast,from where the lights of New York winked at us
in the distance. We took the water taxi ashore (included in the
extortionate price of the buoy!) and had a shower and a wander around town.
There wasn't much to see as this is what they call a 'bedroom community' - a
place where the commuters from New York City live. We hoped to eat in the yacht
club but they had an event on and were not serving dinner,so we found a little
cafe for an early supper and then had an early night to catch up on sleep.
Overnighters tend to make us more tired as they are not long enough to get into
a pattern of sleeping in watches. We wanted to be wide awake for the sail
into New York Harbour tomorrow.