East Coast – Fall 2023

Cruising south in the Chesapeake has been beyond beautiful! Conditions have been suburb, sunny, no wind, still water and currents going our way. When we pulled into Rock Hall, we saw some strange orange buoys and very large yellow triangle floats. We said, “That is strange” and went about docking on their free wall.

Daily, actually multiple times a day, we check the weather, winds, tides and currents using 4-5 different Apps. Also, discussions on the docks usually involve all things weather. On day two, we traveled a very long day in the rain across Long Island Sound to get ahead of the forecasted bad weather.  This enabled us to take advantage of small weather windows to keep moving south. This probably put us about two weeks ahead of folks who were only one day behind us.  We continue to hear reports of folks stuck between Port Washington and Atlantic Highlands due to impassable weather conditions. In our planning to leave Cape May, we once again saw one day to move or we would probably be stuck waiting for a weather shift.