Cape May

Gumpy Halloween?

We decide to make a quick trip to Cape May before another storm hits. We don’t both putting up the bimini or enclosure since this is only a 4 hour trip and we would just have to take it down when we get in. We do a couple of shifts, but it’s quite cold and wet. We get into Cape May around 8 pm and anchor.

The next day, as we are all working from the boat, phone alarms start going off - it’s the anchor app! We all run up to the cockpit and we are sliding towards shore. We start up the engine, pull up the anchor and try to re-anchor.

(Go on and on about how many times we try to re-anchor, notice that the anchor is rotated 180 degrees when we lift to re-anchor, finally get purchase, wake up the next day to the coast guard asking us to re-anchor because we are in the channel, re-anchor, decide to go get a pump out, realize it’s low tide once we are almost there and have to turn around and again re-anchor, finally get a pumpout and Liz goes ashore to get provisions)