VA to ME trip
Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 3:09 pm
Sharon, my wife, and I left Atlantic Yacht Basin in Chesapeake, VA around 8 am on Friday 5/25 for our trip up the coast. We made the sea buoy off Chesapeake Bay before dark and turned North. We ended up motor sailing the entire trip to maintain 6-6.5 kts. Seas were calm the entire distance except for the nasty chop in Buzzards Bay entering the Cape Cod Canal approach. We ended up doing a u turn and going into Pocasset Harbor for the night as it was 11pm and the current was not due to go slack until after 3am. The whole trip was strange in that we never saw another boat on the seas except for NYC and Long Island Sound. We were on alert for barges and commercial shipping because of all the dire warnings but there was very light barge traffic and non existent ship traffic. This was Sharon's first ocean passage and first overnight experience and it couldn't have been more perfect. We arrived in Rockland, ME about 2:30 the following Thursday. First leg was from VA to the other side of Throgs Neck Bridge then to Clinton, CT to a marina ($3.80/') overnite. A long day up to Pocasset for a few hours sleep then overnight to Rockland. I hope our trip back in the fall is as nice!