Waiting For Weather

This picture depicts a typical day of sailing. As you can see the crew is busy with his daily tasks such as scrubbing the deck and practicing his knots. In this picture we are 2 or 3 miles off the New Jersey coast which seems to be all sandy beach with many homes and condos. Patrick and I were both very impressed with the fine quality of the beaches and summer homes in this area.

We saw this guy rowing his boat while we were sailing up the coast. He was about 2 miles off shore and heading out. He was still heading out as far as we could see him.


There is a new casino being built on the Board Walk (last picture) and it is HUGE. A local we chatted with today said it will be finished next May and is being built by the Chinese. It will totally dwarf all the other casinos and already dominates the skyline. This picture doesn't do it justice because it was very foggy when we approached Atlantic City. Later on we walked the Board Walk and got the impression that many of the shops and casinos have seen their better days. We are next to the Golden Nugget Casino (in the harbor area) which was Trump Casino two weeks ago. It has also seen better days and appears to need a lot of work. Next door is Harrah's and the Borgata which are fantastic and very busy. They are considered the best casinos in town.

The wind and waves have picked up and are expected to continue to build for the next two days so we will wait for the wind to die down. We are looking at wind in the 15 to 20 with gusts to 25+ and waves in the 5-7 ft range. Summer Snow can handle these conditions with ease but since we have the time we decided to wait for more comfortable seas.