Plymouth Light

Michael says y'all want to see the scenery, not us so I need to start putting pictures without us on. This is the light off Plymouth, MA. More non people photos in the future. 

After sliding under the bridges in the Cape May Canal, we moved rapidly up Delaware Bay. We arrived at the C&D (Chesapeake and Delaware) Canal early enough and with the right current to make ourway through the canal. It was getting llate by the time we reached Chesapeake City (along the canal at the Chesapeake Bay end) so we decided to pull in there for the night. We anchored in the small harbor. The weather conditions were not ideal the next day, so we pulled up to the town dock after other boats left. The town dock was free with a maximum stay of 24 hours but was first come first served. Pictured is Rio Luna (the boat on the end) tied up to the town dock in Chesapeake City with the bridge over the canal in the background. 

Riding the Metro. 

We purchased some of these cool animals made of grass in Chinatown. 

The view of New York from outside the Statue of Liberty was great though a bit hazy.  

We reached the end of Long Island Sound early in the morning. We anchored for a couple of hours to await a favorable tide to go through Hellsgate. 

Arrival in New York

We arrived in New York in the middle of September (the 18th) and were very busy for our short stay. We visited the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. Another day we went to Chinatown and Litttle Italy. There was a festival going on in Little Italy celebrating one of the saints. We spent another day at the Botanical Gardens, and then met up with the family we met in Mystic Seaport for a day at the Natural Science Museum and Earth and Space Center. Before leaving on the afternoon of the 23rd, Justin, Josephine and Tracy walked through Central Park and spent a quick hour and a half in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Each of us got to pick one area that we wanted to see. Maybe another time we will get to stay longer.
From New York we made an overnight trip to Cape May, NJ. arriving before dark on the 24th where we waited overnight for the early morning low tide. It was tight but our boat just made it under the two bridges without scraping the top of the mast! Michael was biting his nails while I refused to look up.

Justin and Josephine with one of their new friends, Kim, learn how to make rope in Mystic Seaport. The blacksmith, Craig, made iron nails for them. 

After leaving Bar Harbor

We made an overnight cruise from Bar Harbor to Cape Cod. The timing was not good to go through the Cape Cod Canal, so we overnighted in Provicetown and then went through the canal and onto New Bedford where we anchored just before dark outside the hurricane hole. We discovered as the tide went out that we were not in a deep enough spot and bumped along the bottom for two or three hours before the tide was up enough to pull some scope in. Unfortunately we pulled a little to much in and before we knew it the anchor was dragging and we found ourselves in the channel with a ferry bearing down on us! It was heave ho and up the anchor qickly. We decided to go on in and try to find a mooring. (We had not been able to raise the rental mooring company the previous evening by phone or radio--by now it was after midnight--which is why we decided to anchor in the first place.) We ended up on a private mooring waiting for dawn when we would have better visibility to find the rental moorings.

We met up with some nice people there who gave me a lift to the grocery and offered us the use of their mooring the next time we are in New Bedford.

From there our next stop was Mystic Seaport where we holed up for a few days waiting for the remnants of Rita to pass by.

If you ever have the opportunity to go to Mystic Seaport do so. It was a neat place. The marina we stayed at was part of the museum and the entrance fee was included in the marina fee. (You also could walk around the grounds after the museum was closed although all the buildings and ships were also closed.) The place was fun and educational.

We met up with another cruising family there and Justin and Josephine were glad to have other kids to play with.