Atlantic City

Well the wind wasn’t the best for leaving Barnegat Harbour yesterday but was far better that the day before. While I was raising anchor the windlass decided to stop working so I had to manually crank it up, the problem is in the wired remote control, a couple of wires had broke. When I installed the system 9 years ago I had put a remote switch in the cockpit of which I had never used. Of course neither one of us thought of it that morning!  Anyways I took the control apart and resoldered the wires and coated the inside area with 5200 (yes George, 5200 J) to help keep the wires from pulling out as the strain relief is terrible. If it doesn’t work there is a West Marine store around and I will get another.

When we got to the inlet there were lots of swells and current, plus making it more difficult was the sheer number of fishing boats of every size inside the channel. We left at 07:30 but apparently that wasn’t early enough to beat them! After a hard slog out of the harbour we were out into 15-20 knots of wind with large 4-6 ft swells, which made for an long 35nm to Atlantic City. At least we were able to sail the distance and arrived at 3 PM and found an anchorage. Unfortunately the anchorage was crazy rolly with the tides fighting the wind. To top it off, it was very humid so combined with this, made for un uncomfortable night. After the weather beating we took Greg and I thought it best to take the girls out to supper, we found a nice bar/grill that was perfect. After supper we walked the docks where there were lots of people catching “Bluefish” then cleaning and frying them up right there. We also ran into a fellow that had this truck with the 4 extra alternators to run his CB radio which he claims will put out 6000 watts, this is well above the legal  limit – guess that’s why  he is mobile! He was talking to someone from Texas when we were there.  The lights from Atlantic City are very bright as you can see.