Saturday, June 18, 2011

Charts and Maps

Cape May was a tough anchorage.  The Coast Guard station kept making announcements, sounding horns and playing marching music over the PA.  The fishing boats started before sunrise and we were anchored next to the channel.  But we were so tired we slept  through most of it.  The Southern part of New Jersey is maybe the least attractive place we have been in to date.  Most trawlers travel this section on the outside, thats in the Atlantic.  We stayed in the  ICW and it was wild.  The landscape looks like South Georga but has less waterway for boats.  On top of that,  the accepted practice here is to fish in the channel.  I ask one boater if he knew he was in the channel and he said "yea!!, that's where the fish are!!"  We navigated all that without a navagation chart.   I failed to buy one and so we used a road map.  We are doing just fine, thank you.  We have two more days of this and we will be in New York.  It's got to be better.  Lots of love to you all and Happy Fathers day.

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