Saturday, May 7, 2011

Hampton, VA to Cape May, NJ

We had a fantastic time in Hampton.  A local yacht club was having a get together at the dock we were staying on and invited us to their wine tasting on Saturday night.  What a great group of people!  They made us feel like a part of the group - southern hospitality at its best.  We had a lot of fun at the wine tasting then spent the evening visiting people on their boats. 

We planned to spend Sunday night in Hampton before exploring the Cheseapeake.  Sunday morning we checked the weather and it turned out that Sunday and Monday would be a good weather window to head outside to Cape May, followed by lots of wind and possible rain midweek so we changed our plans.  Midmorning we called Doug and Jackie in Cape May and Tom and Jerilyn in Wilmington, Delaware and invited ourselves for the next weekend.  It was a hard decision to give up the Cheseapeake and to skip Washington, DC as we had been hoping to catch up with Ammie and Landon, and meet Brynn their amazingly cute new baby.

The153 mile trip to Cape May was completely uneventful which is the way I prefer them.  The tide was slack as we came into the Cape May inlet so even that part of the trip was ho-hum.  Finding a place to anchor at low tide was tricky and we went aground a couple of times but the bottom is so soft it is like running aground on a marshmallow so even that was no big deal.  We finally found a place to anchor and then moved in the morning just before high tide across the harbor near the Fisherman's Memorial which is a convenient place to land the dinghy.

Doug and Jackie lent us their Explorer and also fed us dinner on Tuesday night then Tom and Jerilyn drove down on Wednesday. Thursday we ran some errands and went to see my brother's boat that he has been ever so slowly bringing home from Florida whenever he has a week's vacation.  JUNIPER looks like she is going to be a lot of fun. Friday morning we brought the boat into a little marina for the weekend. Jackie lent us her amazingly cool truck to drive to Wilmington to see Tom and Jerilyn.  Her four door pick up truck had every possible bell and whistle you can think of including not only heated seats but air conditioned seats.  We have serious truck envy.

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