Great Loop: Atlantic City and on to Great Kills
The conditions that greeted us as we exited Cape May into the Atlantic June 1st and 2nd, 2022 The weather turned boisterous overnight. We had experienced very gentle and benign weather for our trip down Delaware Bay. Something for which we were thankful. The next day we had to pay the piper. After departing Cape May we experienced 30 minutes of pounding into big wind waves as we voyaged north and we encountered larger boats turning around and returning to Cape May. It was clear this was not the day to move north up the Atlantic coast. The radio net was active as the assembled boaters discussed possible next steps. We said we were going to try the no longer maintained New Jersey Intra-Coastal Waterway (ICW) north to Atlantic City. Very quickly we had 3 boats asking to join us if we led the way. Others chose to anchor till weather improved. Of those that chose the ICW option, we were the shallowest draft boat, so they wanted us to go f...