Guildive Cruises Blog

We have been busy busy busy sailing the boat the last few days with yesterday and today being the first two days the whole trip we have had to run the engine almost all day to make some miles!  But we made it to the Chesapeake Bay anchored tonight in the upper bay enjoying the evening with a beautiful sunset.  We left Mystic with some great wind to make it to NYC almost completely under sail!  We did make a pit-stop in Stamford CT to pick up a good friend of ours Frank and to take a rest for the night.  With a great Nor’easter blowing and us going west we set some sails and had great smiles on our face!  We made it into NYC Sunday midday and docked in Weehawken, New Jersey for the night enjoying a shower and a night in the city – even sleeping in the next morning.  Fueled up Monday, said goodbye to Goldie, and picked up another crew Jason – a good friend from Nova Scotia.  It was more like a ship jump for Jason as we did not want to pay for dockage anywhere in the city – “throw your bag and jump” – not even touching the dock, once on board we were bound for the Jersey coast!  At Sandy Hook we shut down for the night this time under full sail making average 6 knots – just loving Guildive and how she sails.  By 10 am the next morning we were by Atlantic City with clear skies and a beautiful wind – this time coming from where we needed to go – the southwest – BUMMER!  Engine on… making tracks for the Delaware Bay anchoring last night north of the anchorage for the big ships in water shallow enough they could not run us over.   We woke to an early morning with a good 30+ miles to get up to the C&D Canal by noon and not much breeze, really just setting the main and mizzen for looks until the canal.  We made it through the canal, watching one boat run out of gas and one go up on the rocks, and have anchored down just south of the Sassafras River for the night to enjoy our last night at sea for awhile, tomorrow we are bound for Annapolis.

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