September 8, 2009 Georgetown, MD

We have been traveling quickly down the coast from Maine and are currently in Georgetown, MD. We took advantage of the good weather between the low pressure systems and hurricanes. We left Boothbay on August 31 and took a long run 171 nautical miles to Dutch Harbor, RI. On the 2nd of Sept we left Dutch Harbor and ran Long Island Sound to Orient Bay, NY ( 53 NM) ; then on Sept 3rd from Orient Bay to Oyster Bay a 68 mile run. Then we took the always fun ride along the East River of New York down to the NYC harbor and onto Sandy Hook, New Jersey. We always have a fun ride down the East River, catching Hells Gate at slack tide and then riding the tide out to the New York Harbor. We had planned to stay at Atlantic Highlands Marina for a few days but the weather was going to change for rough sailing down the New Jersey coast so we rested one night and then headed down the Jersey coast to a beautiful night of soft breezes and a full moon, then up the Delaware Bay to the Chesapeake-Delaware Canal and then onto Georgetown, Maryland.




The Queen Mary II docked on the East River.

There was a fleet of 20 some Dutch "barge" sailing vessels that we passed going south in the E River. We learned later that there we in New York to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the Dutch founding of the island.

New York as we passed through Hell's Gate.

One of the many tugs on the E River.