Cape May, NJ
After a 57 mile cruise down Delaware Bay we arrived at Utsche’s Marina, a looper favorite, Saturday the 21st,. It was a beautiful sunny day and fairly hot. After a quick boat cleaning we launched the bikes and went for a ride.
Cape May is National Historic Landmark treasured for it’s beautiful victorian architecture. We have seen many nice examples of this type of architecture in other small towns along the way but nothing the the quality and scale of what Cape May offers. Many of the homes are impeccably restored to their original state with new construction keeping many of the elements to blend nicely together. Right next to the Marina was a very old established eatery called the Lobster House where you can eat out back sitting on an old schooner. The food was surprisingly good. About 1.5 miles to the south was the Cape May mall area. Not a mall like you think but an area that they permanently closed the streets so that all the shops and restaurants open onto the mall area. Sue found the local watering hole called C-View that is the oldest tavern in Cape May. Are you all starting to see a theme here?We were not the only Loopers in town. There wound up being over a dozen in our marina and another dozen the the marina next door. Where there are loopers there is bound to be docktails.
Mother Nature again reared her ugly head and kept the winds up such that the sea state would not allow the “Pleasure” part in pleasure boating. So we were stuck in port once again, sort of! Cruising on your own boat seems so exotic and some times it is and other times you wonder; “What were we thinking”. As we all know shit happens. Well the the fairy godmother of shit paid us a visit. A fierce current, a miss handled dock line by dock hand and a boat that does not have a lot of power caused the dinghy to get caught between the boat and a piling. Note to self, do not use said inflatable as a fender. Bad things happen.The AC service took an additional round of begging, bribing and offers to clean the shop to get him to come to the boat and add some juice to the system. Good news there also AC now blows snow out of the vents. Bad news is now we will never see warm weather on the trip!
Chart plotter is still currently at the helm. Every so often it needs a slap on the side of the CPU to get the screen to come back. We have procured a shipping box so it will be heading out for repair tomorrow.