Chesapeake City, MD to Manasquan Inlet, NJ

We went to Chesapeake City after we left Annapolis. Chesapeake City is on the C & D Canal linking the Chesapeake Bay to the Deleware River/Bay. This is one of the normal staging locations for waiting for weather for heading down the Deleware to Cape May, NJ. There is a free dock here if it is available and we worked out getting all three of our boats on after a few hours waiting for some of the local boaters to leave for the evening.

While we were there, Bill & Gail needed to repair their bimini top and we told them we had a sewing machine on board (Stacy's mother gave us her machine) so we opened the SEASEA Repair Shop and Gail sewed the bimini so they did not have to replace it.

We spent two nights in Chesapeake City and then had a good weather window for making the run down the Deleware. We left early in the morning and had a good run to Cape May. The weather was looking good for the next week so we just anchored for the night and then headed out early for an outside (in the ocean) run up the coast to Atlantic City. There was a beautiful sunrise just as we were headed out the jetties into the ocean.

Chuck and Chris and Bill and Gail had not been to Atlantic City so we left early out of Cape May to go to Atlantic City so we could get there early enough to see the boardwalk and visit the casinos.


While we were there Stacy had to play one slot machine for our friend Betty DeLorme from Athens. She succeeded in turning $5 into $17 and then called Betty to let her know.

We had a funnel cake before leaving the boardwalk and heading back to our boats.

The following morning we headed out to Manasquan Inlet. We checked on anchorages at Manasquan and found that the only good anchorage would have been a backtrack after getting into the inlet so we decided to take the inside route to Manasquan. This turned out to be a very stressful decision. We knew there were shallow spots in the NJ ICW but it turned out that the majority of the trip was in very shallow water. At one point Chuck launched his dinghy and led us through a few miles where he could sound the depths ahead.

Gail referred to him as Merriweather Lewis and we all made it through but we made this entire run at or near low tide. By the time we got to our anchorage we were regretting not running outside and backtracking to the anchorage. We got some sleep and then headed out the inlet early the next morning to make our run into New York harbor.

I will update our New York stay in the next blog installment.

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