Wednesday
2026 - Safe and sound at Utsch ’s Marina, Cape May. 2 near misses with the ocean bottom…maybe it had to do with my noon shooting of the suns position via the sextant that globally positioned us 30 miles onto dry land!! No harm no foul, but we all need to continue to work a bit on the fine tuning of navigation. Today we steamed faster than I ever thought the Audax could go.. close to 8.5 knots at times on a reach out of Atlantic City, too bad our bilge began to fill with diesel!! The 2nd time of the trip and what seems to be a fill tube overflow problem when heeling at 30 plus degrees thus ultimately forcing us to motor and burn excess fuel. A tight, successful landing by Jordi at the marina, good conversations at the helm about life, money and marriage, (no proposals and NO we are not becoming that close with each other yet ). Forced to pay another freaking dockage fee tonight although at least this time we got a goodie bag to include wine, biscotti and coffee coupon and last night I managed to quadruple my money in Black Jack to help fatten up the “kitty”!!!

Just finished a most successful sit down dinner of fresh, local bluefish and asparagus sauted in a butter/garlic sauce, my buddy Will Frischkorn, professional cyclist and gourmet chef extraordinare would be proud. Some solid provisioning at the local Acme supermarket and a weather window that looks to be favorable and very WINDY starting tomorrow PM as high pressure holds strong. The vote says it is go time for our longest leg yet of 155 NM into the mouth of the Chesapeake and ideally reaching Hospital point just past Norfolk and at the crossroads of the ICW (intracoastal waterway)

Site News:
1) Super psyched to see Jordi enter the blogging ranks yesterday, (see entry directly below) and I hope many who follow this site also check out the sister site at southboundsaint.blogspot.com (Steve’s site).
2) Spiffed up the Ships Log page to show our route and ports of call
3) Jordi’s personal photo album is up and running via a link on the main page called Jordi’s Photos
4) Be sure to continue leaving comments throughout the site as we truly love, read and appreciate them all. Thank you for the continued support.
5) Coming relatively soon I hope to the site will be a definition page for the sundry of terms used throughout the site,  a pictorial page for my own artistic photo work labeled “Through the Rigging”, (hopefully Sverre will be able to help me out on this) and an area of the site to begin creating the Caribbean Island Trail in conjunction with MITA where we made the front page of their website, awesome!!!

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