Summit North marina
October 13th, Our last leg of the 2023 season! Left Cohansey Cove with a bit of a tide push. Arrived at the level of the marina 3h30 later. We went ahead to fill up with diesel at Schaeffer in Chesapeake city and after a pumpout we did our final docking at C4, where we will stay through the winter....
Cohansey cove
October 12th, Taking advantage of another nice boating conditions, we left Atlantic city at high tide at 7pm. We arrived past noon in Cape May, we tried to anchor but we were not getting the hold we needed, so our other option was to anchor by a dredging platform that was noisily operating. We chose...
Atlantic city, return
October 11th, Idéal navigation conditions to go from Sandy Hook to Atlantic city. 9h30 with a calm sea, great. We don't like long days but if you see a pair of whales and dolphins, perfect. Got in at high tide to the brigantine anchorage, and good thing as we saw 5ft to go through this very shallow...
Sandy Hook, nj
October 10th, Left at 7h30 to catch good current down the East river. It went well, passing boats, ferries and even sea planes in the mix made at time two hands on the helms kind of moments. Passed lady liberty and smmoth and sunnier weather as we approached sandy hook. We are anchored near the tip...
Port Washington
October 9th, Next stop, Port Washington, last stop before heading through the East River to the Hudson and NJ. We did a pumpout and filled up water first thing, at the town dock. We are for tonight at the free town mooring. We drove our dinghy to the town dinghy dock to walk around town, this being...
Sagamore Hill
October 7th, We managed a reservation to visit Theodore Roosevelt's home in Sagamore Hill, which is within Oyster Bay. Reservations are hard to get, but we got a 1pm.,so whatever the rain we were determined. We moved our boat to anchor at the nearest point to the park and rode our dinghy to the beac...
Oyster Bay
October 5th, Nice anchor, 1 mile away from the harbor proper, but the best we could do given the mooring field taking the entire area by the harbor. We walked up the the Field Arboretum, park, garden, greenhouse and an exceptional mansion built in 1921 by the Coes in the Tudor revival style. When th...
Northport
October 4th, Easy and sunny day. Anchored near Bluff point. Took the dinghy to the transient dinghy dock. We visited the historical museum, small but instructive. We also stopped for an ice-cream..probably the last one in this warm last day of October. When walking in the park, Harvey was asked to p...
Port Jefferson
Arrived around 4pm in Port Jefferson. We are near Mc Allister County Park and we kayaked to the dune park for a walk up the dunes. The 80 degree temperature was just perfect.
Old Saybrook
Thursday, visited the Kate and strolled in town. Friday rain heavy, issue with the forward bilge pump kept us frustrated and after many hours, we ended up admitting that we had the pump running without hope of stopping it. Saturday was still raining. Went by train to New Haven to enjoy the art Galle...
Stonington, ct
September 27th, Arrived in Stonington early afternoon after a four hour ride from Newport. Wind and current at our tail, happily because the waves were around 4 feet. We anchored in the designated area and dinghied to the public dock. We helpeda couple whose boat mast had dropped in the water, as th...
Newport, RI
September 22nd to 26th Friday afternoon anchored north of Benton cove. Happy that we found a good anchorage with room to swing. When windy conditions are expected, it is best to have longer anchor lines, which means that the boat will need a wider radius to move with the wind. We are not far from th...
Jamestown, ri
September 21st and 22nd, Taking advantage of a nice weather, we opted to anchor near Jamestown, where we plan on enjoying walks for the next two days. Thursday afternoon, we walked to Fort Wetherill Park. No explanation about the fort but the vistas are wonderful and the graffitis on the remaining c...
East Greenwich
Septembre 20th Nice weather, quiet anchor near Goddard State Park. We inflated our kayak back, and did a nice walk in the park. Added oil to the engine, and we are taking it easy.
Bristol
September 17th to 19th Weather changing from Sunday calm and sunny, to Monday as rainy as it gets, to Tuesday sunny and windy..make the best we can with happily the option to remain on the town mooring. Sunday evening we walked in town, Monday we stayed on the boat, Tuesday we went to the Blithewold...
Providence RI
September 15th through 17th Arrived at Providence marina on Friday with the concerns of hurricane Lee in mind. Our birth was well protected and being the hurricane barrier, so even more secure. The only drawback of the place was the noisy music played the 2 nights we were there until 2 am. Very loud...
Kickamuit river anchor
Thursday, septembre 13th, After the museum visit in Fall River, we went for an anchoring in a well protected river off the Mount Hope Bay. We learned that we were reserved for a slip at Providence marina, so if that hadn't worked out we could stay anchored here as it is also considered an hurricane...
Fall River
September 12th Arrived just before the rain at our mooring in Battleship cove. Tricky getting the lines through the mooring loop. Happily the harbor master was around and helped us. We staid on the boat due to rainy weather, and took to looking around for moorings for Friday and Saturday as hurrican...
Westport, MA
Septembre 12th After a trip back home in Pennsylvania for 11 days. We celebrated Natalie' s birthday, labor day, visited Harvey's parents and saw Philip and Claire's new home in Philadelphia. Meanwhile, the boat had a few things done on it at the shipyard. We did some grocery shopping and returned t...
New Bedford
August 29th, Arrived in New Bedford under cloudy conditions, but no wind or waves to speak of. A sailboat contacted us to take a picture of his boat, which we did. Ais is very useful:) We moored at Pope's island marina, stretched our legs in town, and finished with a nice shower at the marina. Augus...
Hadley Harbor
August 28th, three hours or so to Hadley harbor. The tricky part was the Woods Hole passage that needs to be taken at slack time due to strong current. We were lucky in finding an available free mooring ball in the harbor. Nice and quiet afternoon and evening. We went on a kayak excursion. August 29...
Back to Cotuit
August 27th, Very foggy morning, but cleared around 11 am. We arrived at Cotuit after 2pm. We anchored in the same spot as our last stay, protected from the wind. We went on our kayak along the shore. We saw many shellfishing people, who wirh a rake and a basket, wade for most mid-body to collect cl...
Chatham
August 24th, Nice sunny day, close to the lighthouse at the entrance to the Chatham harbor. Used the kayak to land ashore. Really wild sandy islands and sand bars. We saw our first life horseshoe crabs. At low tide you walk through banks of sand that fill with water quickly with rising tide. This ev...
Cotuit return
August 21st, Back to cotuit where Philip and Claire had left their car. Sad to see them go, it was so nice to have them visit us on the boat. After they left we moved to anchor nearby and later went to a local co-op fresh grocery to pick up a couple of essential and not so essentials. Stayed two mor...
Nantucket
August 19th Early departure to nantucket, due to the wind and waves. Arrived past 9 am and found an easy anchoring. We walked around town. Quiet nice old district with big homes many made of bricks with cobblestone roads. We spent the rest of the afternoon at the beach, and had a lovely evening with...
Cotuit
August 18th, Left Martha's Vineyard to cross the Nantucket sound. We are meeting with Philip and Claire in Cotuit so we can hopefully go for the weekend in Nantucket. The weather is very wet, as storms are rolling and winds are fairly strong. We are safely anchored however. After the heavy rain we w...
Martha's Vineyard
August 14th Arrived around 11 am to make it around slack time at the lagoon pond bridge. We are anchored on the pond near the sail camp park. We're well protected and an easy kayak ride to the camp public beach. From there we walk 5mn to the bus stop. We have a 3 day bus pass and put it to the test....
Mattapoisett
August 12th, Anchored past the mooring in Mattapoisett cove. We had a very nice, and long walk on the rail trail and the bay trail. Took advantage of warm and sunny weather (if a bit humid), as tomorrow rain and wind are on their way.
Marion
August 11th Anchored near Marion, hopefully protected from the strong west wind this afternoon. We went to town during the strongest wind part:) Beautiful homes, some dating from the 1790s, large streets with tall trees..and landscaping to match. We stopped for a large shared ice-cream and visited t...
Onset
August 9th, Left Provincetown at 1pm and arrived at onset at 6pm. Timing the crossing of the canal worked out well and on the Buzzard Bay despite some wind we anchored without a problem near Onset. It is calm so far and we are looking forward too a quiet night.
Provincetown
August 6th, Travel wirhout difficulties to Provincetown where we are moored. In the early evening we kayak to town. It is a very lgbtq kind of main street feeling, plus a Jamaican celebration, plus a lovely weather strall on the pier. Like the place, with many typical cape cod homes full of charm. A...
Wellfleet
August 5th, We left Barnstable at 1pm to take advantage of high tides. The two hour trip to wellfleet was easy and so much easier when you know that you 10 extra feet of water than the chart indicates. We are moored right in the entrance of the harbor, not ideal regarding wakes from boats coming and...
Barnstable
August 4th We walk to the glassware museum this morning and could have stayed longer than one hour and an half. The 19th glass factory was major and all the samples we saw were well explained and beautiful. We also viewed a demonstration. We had to leave the marina by noon and slack on the canal was...
Sandwich Cape Cod canal
August 3rd Going through the cape cod canal takes some timing. There are high tides in both buzzard bay and cape cod Bay, the current through the canal reverses, so we went in on the west side with still some flood left leading to slack, and we did fine. We are at sandwich marina for a slip with pow...
Bassets island
August 2nd, Left woods Hole anchorage around noon, as the wind finally died down. Two hours later we were in calmer waters, hopefully remaining so for the night. I am a bit sleep deprived. Harvey is sleeping better than I do, but he is getting over a cold. So all in all, it would be nice a restful n...
Woods Hole
August 1st Anchored on the other side of the main harbor at Woods Hole. A bit concerned about getting a spot past the mooring field making going to town a bit of an ordeal. As the wind was calm we took the kayak to the nearby beach. The town has a large Oceanic lab and research campus and small town...
Cuttyhunk island
July 31st Five plus hours to reach the island in very good weather conditions. Headed into the channel to the inner harbor but run aground, shucks!! A couple of people helped, one dived and noticed that our starboard prop was in the mud. I suggested a little push from that side and happily that was...
Block island, R.I
July 26th, Anchoring for now north of Crescent Beach in the Great Salt Pond of Block Island. We are not the only one. The place is packed and getting a mooring at 2pm...well we will see. Right now time for a lunch break. The wind is fine but expected to build up all day tomorrow. Even if we have to...
Lake Montauk
July 23rd After a pumpout and filling up the water tanks we headed to Montauk. We are anchoring south on the lake. We were close enough to a beach to kayak to. We walked a mile to the famous ditch beach. Crowded on a sunny Sunday with surfers in particular. Very neat. We walked back and returned to...
Three mile Harbor
July 22nd, Arrived yesterday, we had to battle the current and wind to go for a pumpout and water refill. Happily we were helped by someone working at maintenance. Last night we had a scare with our forward bilge pump going on unexpectedly. We weren't taking water, we think a switch issue. Stayed up...
Coecle harbor
July 20th, We are in the anchorage part of this bay. Very nice and popular in this sunny Thursday. We went with our kayak along the preserve coast, had a picnic lunch and returned for calm afternoon. It is getting hot, but cooling off with a swim was not to be as we saw several moon jellyfish. Altho...
Smith cove Shelter Island
July 19th, Moved just 30 mn away in a quiet and protected cove off Shelter island. We are anchored by a mooring field, but we are truly not in the way. This being a Wednesday, it isn't busy. We took a kayak hop to the area near a boat ramp and walked to a nearby park preserve. Happily we had downloa...
Sag Harbor Noyack bay
July 18th We anchored near Sunset Beach in Noyack Bay. We took our kayak to the beach and from there walked to Sag Harbor. It's around half an hour each way. We had lunch at a Mexican place, a/c was welcomed as the humidity today is noticeable. We walked around town following the historical guide we...
Robins Island
July 17th Calm day and SUNNY. Short ride to Robin's Island. This is a private island but a nice protected cove like anchor. We inflated the kayak and went around, stopped at the sand bar where we walked and collected seashells. As the morning progressed more boaters came to enjoy the water. Very rel...
Greenport
July 15th This morning, first thing we headed to the public and free pumpout station in Riverhead. Harvey replaced our macerator pump and added a switch. We then headed to Greenport. The bays are beautiful on a sunny day. We are anchored in Pipes Cove for 2 nights. We swam off the swim platform. It...
Riverhead
July 13th, Went through the lock, at slack around 1 pm. We had called the day ahead and were informed to come after 1:30 pm. Since we were a bit early, we called again to be told that we better come now as the gates would be closing behind us. A bit confused with the timing directions of the lock ma...
Shinnecock bay
July 12th Lucky weather, smooth sailing. 7 hours port to port. We saw some dolphins and arrived right on time to get a bit of a boost with tide at the inlet. Relaxing evening. Called the harbor master at the Shinnecock lock to get best time to pass or avoid the lock tomorrow. The answer is after 13h...
Freeport for two days
July 10th, The night wasn't bad particularly for Harvey:) who slept through it. This morning we returned to Guy Lombardo Marina. We are keeping our boat there for two nights. From Freeport we rented a car and are traveling back home for a quick stay. We are planning on returning to the marina tomorr...
Gilgo beach cove on Jones Beach Island
July 9th We are returning to Freeport tomorrow, Monday. Thunderstorms are also threatening so it is a good thing to have our boat secured in a marina during our trip back home in Philadelphia. Today trip was easy and now that we are aware of the shoals we are taking precautions. This afternoon we ar...
Davis Park Fire Island
July 8th, we anchored near Davis Park. Warm sunny Saturday. Very popular on the bay side very crowded with boats, people in the water chest deep, music, fun friends and family time. We went to the ocean side , splashed in the surf and walked to Watch Hill. We chatted with the park ranger, stopped at...
Sailors Haven Fire Island
July 7th Navigated to Fire island which doesn't have any paved road, so traffic should be minimal, other boaters' wake is another story. Had one bit of a scare with depth, as I just hit a very shallow point. Happily with a bit a soft touch we returned to 4 ft of water. We have been extra careful as...
Zach's Bay
July 6th A foggy start to our travel required a few blasts of our horn and using the radar, as of course everyone was on its boat this morning fishing..right in the middle of the channel. The fog cleared up after we turned eastward from the Jones Inlet. We had to bring down our antenna to go under o...
Freeport, NY
July 5th Muggy and hot forecast for nyc. So we changed our plans, and decided to catch cooler breeze along the South shores of Long Island. We found a marina in Freeport, quite reasonably priced with electricity and water. Given their advice we also decided on entering the bay at Jones inlet and tha...
Brooklyn, NY
In a hazy Friday, June 30th we drove our boat to Miramar Yacht Club. It is close to Plumb Island in South Brooklyn. We are tied here through Friday, July 7th. We took a combination of train, bus and automobile to be back home Friday evening. Saturday, we went to Harvey's father's birthday dinner at...
Sandy Hook - Horseshoe Cove
Wed., June 28. We left before 8 am to get an easy passage through the canal and the inlet at Manasquan. It went well, a few waves as we crossed into the ocean, but the good surprise was that the 4' waves expected were more like 3' and rolling. We got a very nice surprise also by seeing a humpback wh...
Metedeconk River
Tuesday, June 27th Anchored near the mouth of the river, so we can be closer to Manasquan inlet as we are planning a trip to Sandy Hook on Wednesday morning. We took the kayak for a meandering excursion in the marsh nearby. Lovely, quiet place. A few, not so considerate boaters rocked our boat a few...
Cattus Island - Silver Bay
Sunday, June 25th. After a nice kayak excursion along the Island Beach in the morning, we realized that the site was really getting crowded and a bit noisy, so we opted to navigate further North and anchor at Silver Bay. The idea was that this area was a protected county park, it should be calmer. W...
Tices Shoal - Island Beach NJ
Saturday, June 24th. Left the marina at Tall Oaks on Forked RIver this morning. Forecast being better we decided to try anchoring off Island Beach at Tices Shoal. We took the dinghy to nearby landing. From there there is a wooden bridge that leads you to the other side of the island where we stralle...
Forked River off Barnegat Bay
Tues. June 20th. It took us close to 6 hours to reach Barnegat Bay. The waves from the two feet expected ended up more like 5 ft. Well we managed, a bit roller coaster like ride, but happy to make it to Barnegat inlet at slack time. We had envisioned sunny days at anchor and maybe a stralled on the...
Atlantic city
June 19th. Left at 8 am and arrived at 1:30 pm to anchor in a protected cove North of the Atlantic CIty inlet. A bit nerve wracking to get to it: the passage has been dredged but still you can't deviate from the narrow channel. Harvey said the depth and I stirred as well as I could keeping an eye on...
Cape May, NJ
Sunny and warm day, an easy four and an half hour trip to Cape May. Update on the autopilot: works somewhat, bof as we say in French. The Cape May Canal is a bit eary as it is shallow and we were arriving an hour before low tide, but we managed; a bit of a game of chicken through the last bridge...b...
Cohansey River, NJ
June 17th, 2023 - We are on our way! Left Summit North marina this morning and arrived near 2pm at our first anchorage of the season on the Cohansey River, NJ. This is wild marshland, the river has a strong current and the wind is around 12kt sustaining, hope our anchor holds well. I need to figure...
Moving on from our Winter Marina
Many new preps for our boat: new bottom paint, new engine batteries. And also many improvements including polishing the hull, full engines checkup, and living on board clean up, and organization. To be tested in our first trip, if weather permits it, the famous AutoPilot...we will keep you posted.