NY is in sight!

After the big Hatteras adrenaline rush we played it safe in the Pamlico and Albemarle Sounds and laid over at Portsmouth. We waited out the winds for two days and used the opportunity to get the props aligned. We also went to the historic movie theater in town and saw "Oceans", the new Disney movie. It was incredible. Hard to believe all that activity is going on underneath us as we run the Atlantic. From Portsmouth we had flat seas and ran to Virginia Beach and then up to Atlantic City for Cinco de Mayo, which we celebrated by making tacos on the boat. Not too impressed with Atlantic City. The weather was not cooperating but we just couldn't spend another night is this sorry substitute for Vegas so we ran inside and it was really a nice, fast and beautiful run alongside Long Beach Island, NJ and up through Barnegat Bay. We put in at Manasquan Inlet at a little town called Brielle where we met a fun couple and emptied a few bottles of wine together. The Weavers, Bonnie and Jack, are also retired and enjoy traveling so we had lots to talk about and shared stories about favorite destinations. We agreed that often what makes a place memorable is the people that we meet; we share laughs for a night and then often never see or hear from one another again but it's great to have these "encounters", which is the term that Jack used to describe these snap friendships.

Today you can look for us in The Hudson.