Departed Barnegat inlet at 0715 hours. Exited the inlet with the outgoing tide. Hit 10.1 kn. Also tag the hump about 3/4 of the way out dead center in the channel. That hump was not supposed to be there, but remember, this is Barnegat Bay. Even we’re supposed to be 40 feet deep you can hit a hump. When I got outside the inlet for about half an hour and the wind was dead behind me. That made for a very slow sale. I need to catch the tide into Atlantic City Inlet no later than 2:30 PM. I took down the jib left the main up and I was hitting mid to high 6 kn all the way Surfing down the waves 8 kn. Got into Atlantic City and anchor was down by 13:00 hours I filled up the diesel with 33 gallons, topped off my gas can for the generator, and filled the water tank, which is 45 gallons. Taking a nice break this afternoon, who knows? I might even take a nap  Something I don’t do that often. The tide at Cape May Inlet has a window of between 1:00 PM and 3:30 PM for me to get in. That’s a total of 37 nautical miles. It should take me between six and seven hours to get there so it looks like an early start for me tomorrow morning depending upon the tide here at Atlantic City. I can catch the outgoing tide tomorrow from Atlantic City anytime between six and 8 o’clock, so if I leave at seven, I will get to Cape May at approximately 1 o’clock in the afternoon in time to catch the filling tide. Three different wind models show pretty much the same thing, 10 to 15 kn 10 in the morning developing to 15 in the afternoon out of the south south east. Looks like a port the entire way down!

Barnegat light to Atlantic City

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