Atlantic Ocean and more

We left Sandy Hook New York Monday morning at 5h00 am for the Atlantic Ocean. It was a bit unnerving in the dark, just using our IPad to navigate.
We had over a 117 nautical miles to do in the Atlantic. The first day we did around  80 miles in 13 hours and ended up in Atlantic City.  Wish we had had the energy to get off the boat and visit but we were beat.
We pushed on the next day and came into the Delaware Bay to wait out a gale storm.
Before the storm arrived, we decided to take out dinghy Freddy into town to buy groceries. On the way back about half a mile to the boat we ran out of gas. Yup, mistake number one, no spare fuel on board. We tried paddling back but after 1 hour we hadn’t moved a foot. Currents, tides and wind were against us.
Mistake number 2, we forgot the cellphone on the boat. By now it’s getting dark.
Mistake number 3, we didn’t leave an anchor light on the boat and now we can’t even see it. We finally ended up rowing to the beach and Mike went knocking at a strangers house to ask for gas and a flashlight. We were lucky to find someone so nice that did have fuel and a flashlight. For 4 hours it took us to get groceries on top of almost 9 hours in the sailboat. Boy did that beer taste good
Moral of the story, have spare gas, phone, flashlight and it might be a good idea to have proper oars and not plastic ones and oh yes put out the porch light to help you find the way back home.
So now we are nicely docked in the town of Lewes in Delaware until this gale blows by which should be by Saturday.
PS we were anchored in front of the casinos in Atlantic City. The photo was taken from the cockpit of our boat. Nice views. Cheers 🥂


Saturday.
Time for some R and R.

Comments

  1. DenisOctober 17, 2019 at 3:36 AM

    Same think happen to us

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  2. Marie LOctober 17, 2019 at 6:27 AM

    Leçon 101 ,du nouveau navigateur. Ne jamais oublier les règles de base. Heureusement tout c’est bien terminé pour vous. Avec un peu de frousse.. Soyez rassurés c’est arrivé à tous les navigateurs.

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  3. Derrer FamilyNovember 14, 2019 at 6:33 PM

    Yikes! Thank goodness for good people. You earned your beer and your rest!

    ReplyDelete

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