Tuesday morning, May 6, as we passed Annapolis, we were treated again to the sight of this ship leaving port. We traveled to Still Pond to an anchorage where we spent the night. It was beautiful on the Chesapeake today and we made good time.


After changing our minds many many times Wed. morning, we decided to really push it today. We hauled anchor around 6:30 am and headed for the C&D canal. We caught the tide which was great, getting us up to around 11.6 kts. sog. We entered the Delaware at 10:30 and soon lost the ride. We would catch it again at the mouth of the Delaware when the tide would turn.

In our travels we have seen many different fishing boats. This one was using a large net.

Then we started around the tip of Cape May and our good day became a bad day quickly. What should have been an hour trip into the Cape May channel, took us over 2 hours, a call to the Coast Guard and then a helping hand from TowBoat US to get us into a slip at Utsch's Marina in the dark. Not a fun ending to a good day.

I guess if you have to be stuck somewhere, Cape May is not a bad place. The nor'easter that would bring winds of 73.1 mph and seas up to 14' made us very thankful that we were tied to a dock. And boaters always seem to make a bad situation into a party. We once again met a great group of loopers. We celebrated Mother's Day at the Blue Pig.

From left to right: Annette, Nat, Ellen, Roy, Sandy, Jim and Gary. We were later joined by Steve and Ruth. Roger and Erika from Tumbleweed were absent this day but are here at Utsch's also. We met Tumbleweed last year when we did the loop.

We will sit again today, May 13, in the hopes that tomorrow will be a better traveling day. Winds today are forecast for 30 mph gusts and Annette will definitely go home by car if we even think about leaving the dock.