Cape May This Weekend

[Converse48]

We'll be making the trek down that horrible Delaware Bay :smt021 on Friday to spend the weekend in Cape May. As of now, it looks like a very nice weekend!

Festivus will be proudly waving her long-awaited CSR burgee at South Jersey Marina. If anyone is in the 'hood, stop on by and say hello!:thumbsup:

 

[RiverGalsMan]

Hey Tim, have a great time out there. I'll be proudly flying my CSR burgee at the Cambridge Hyatt.

We'll compare notes next week. Mine will surely include lost golf balls

 

[osd9]

Tim:

I won't be making it that far South, but I will be flying my CSR Burgee at Farley's State Marina at the Trump Plaza in Atlantic City this weekend. As of now, the winds and skies look great....especially for October.

 

[Converse48]

Whoa... what a gorgeous weekend. Pics coming... who'dve thunk that we'd be swimming in the ocean in October?

 

[comsnark]

Yesterday was a great day.

Lots of boats out. . .both during the day and at night.

I got both the searay and the puffer on the water yesterday.

 

[dpvandy01]

We'll be making the trek down that horrible Delaware Bay :smt021 on Friday to spend the weekend in Cape May. As of now, it looks like a very nice weekend!

If you get a chance while in Cape May stop in the Ugly Mug...... and hoist a pint or two. Awesome:thumbsup:

 

[Four Suns]

This weather is nuts. It was 93 degrees here yesterday and the water temp on the Chickahominy River is 84 degrees. The river was packed with people on ski boats and jet skis...

This warm weather is starting to get in the way of working.

 

[CJ Martin]

It was a bit too hot for one sportfisherman yesterday.

We had just cleared Solomons harbor heading up the Patuxent when we heard the first call on the radio about a boat in distress at bouy 1PR (right at the mouth of the Patuxent River). When we heard the boat was on fire we turned around and headed that way. Solomons Fire Boat #3 came racing past us. It was easy to spot the boat on fire, she was shooting huge black clouds of smoke. Two USCG boats were on scene and we stayed well clear. Apparently there were two onboard and they had gotta off ok.

The boat burned down to the deck forward, and near the waterline aft. They got the fire out and started dewatering the hull. That's when we decided to head back. Couldn't get a make or name off of her but I'd guess 40-50', with a dingy crane forward.

Not sure how the fire started. The Bay was like glass.

-CJ

 

[ImpulseIII]

Gary,
When did you start working??

 

[Four Suns]

Gary,
When did you start working??

I havene't yet... but it's because of the weather. You talking to my wife or something?

 

[ImpulseIII]

No, its just that if my wife hears that you are working again, she may start thinking that I have too much time on my hands and that I should do something more that "go to the boat" during the week!

Man, what a weekend .....Hope we don't pay for this great fall by having a crappy spring!

 

[comsnark]

I remember a couple of good days last year in late october, and I had haulout done 1st week of Novemember. This year, I am talking around November 15th.

Spring. . .I seem to recall snow in March last year. The spring was very late.

 

[Converse48]

As promised, here are some pictures from the weekend…

Friday morning was a bit foggy, but manageable. Here is Captain Jack piloting us through the Chesapeake City bridge on the C&D canal:

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Once in the Delaware Bay, you get to ride right by the Salem Nuclear power plant. I could’ve sworn I heard someone paging Homer Simpson as we went by. Yes, this place always looks this ominous:

This is Ship John Shoal lighthouse in the middle of the Delaware Bay. Notice how flat the water is… these conditions are very rare on the Delaware Bay:

Speaking of which, check out the smooth as glass conditions on the Bay. Note how the sea and sky blend as it was still foggy off in the distance. Sorry that I left the plastic down for this picture…

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Four hours and twenty minutes from Rock Hall, we found ourselves with this view from our slip at South Jersey Marina (where our rental car was waiting):

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We immediately went out for a dinghy ride around the harbor under this beautiful sky.

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There are some cool old homes (with cool old boats) in the harbor:

Although almost exclusively a sport fishing community, ( we were the only boat in the marina with no outriggers) we did encounter this cool old sailboat maneuvering in the harbor:

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To circumnavigate the harbor, you need to go under this low bridge, we had to lay on the floor to clear this baby:

On the other side of the harbor was the more upscale Canyon Club where we encountered this beauty… note the name (Hooter Patrol), this guy had better own Hooters or that is the stupidest name ever for a proper yacht:

We were a little late to Sunset Beach which is one of the few places on the upper East Coast where you can see the sun set over water. This pic was the best I could do…

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After the first soccer game (a 2-0 win) on Saturday, we joined the rest of my son’s team at their hotel in Wildwood which had a rooftop indoor pool:

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Then the team grabbed lunch on the boardwalk in between games:

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After the second game (a 7-0 loss… OUCH), the kids cooled off by swimming in the Ocean. The water wasn’t just “acceptable” it was downright pleasant…

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Once bored with swimming, the boys played a little sand football…

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At night we returned to the boardwalk…

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Where for $5 you can get three darts to try to pop balloons…

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And if you pop all three, you get a $2 prize…

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And then there’s nothing like the ice cream “night cap”

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The boys lost the Sunday game, 2-0, but the trip home was as flat as the trip down and even sunnier.

The boat performed very well, and now I just need to track down the source of the Cummins-white-painted bolt I found rolling around underneath the port engine…

 

[Four Suns]

What a great time! And a great long run to boot.

It'll probably be snowing next week.

uh oh on that bolt... remember my bolts coming off adventures. Better find that before your aftercooler vibrates off the engine.

 

[comsnark]

I am hauling out in mid November. Still have JetSkis on the dock

Don't you dare use the "S" word.

 

[rondds]

prodigal
great presentation of your weekend. while you were doing all that fun stuff, i was running pink crap through my fresh water systems. i'm just a bit jealous here. :grin:

btw, how about a quick tutorial on how you got all those photos up with a caption describing each one? i try to put one stupid attachment picture and the site barks that it's too large and i havent got any more space for attachments!:smt013

 

[Four Suns]

Hey Tim,

That boat you saw has really nice running gear on it.

 

[Converse48]

That would be the one, Gary. Of course, that running gear didn't make the trip north.:smt021

Rondds, to post multiple pics you must first upload your pics to a photo site. In my case I use flickr, but other examples are snapfish and photobucket. Once the pics are there, the photosite will tell you how to link to your pics from other sites (there will be a URL for each image), then you can link to them here rather than upload them. That way you won't bump up against the size limits here because the pictures aren't hosted on this site. Gary's the real pro at this, perhaps he can weigh in as well...

 

[ImpulseIII]

Tim,
What speed do you cruise at? 4 hours and 20 minutes from Rock Hall to Cape May is great.

 

[Converse48]

Frank-
2370 RPM, 75% Load, 25 knots (current notwithstanding). 98 nautical miles with going slow only at Chesapeake City and parts of the Cape May Canal.