Weather Eye

We are keeping our eye on the weather. The current wind forecast shows that in 48 hours or so the conditions will deteriorate to what is shown above.

When this low moves out to sea there is another cold front that will be right on top of us in Long Island.

National Weather Service – Hazardous Weather Outlook…

Gale-force winds and/or very rough seas are forecast on Tuesday.

Gale-force winds and/or very rough seas are forecast on Wednesday.

Gale-force winds and/or very rough seas are forecast on Thursday.

Gale-force winds and/or very rough seas are forecast on Friday.

Gale-force winds and/or very rough seas are forecast on Saturday.

The waves heights for the Jersey Shore go from their current 2′ to around 8′ or more.

We decided to book a night @ a Safe Harbor marina in Stratford, CT and the following 5 nights at another Safe Harbor marina further west in Port Washington, NY. This would allow us to allow the weather to clear before running the Jersey shore. We are hoping for a 2-3 days of flat seas to run south and into the Delaware Bay.

The future weather looks bad but this morning we awoke to a nice “sun up” view and a calm anchorage.

As we motor west down LIS the waves are small and the sun is shining.

We passed Falkner Island off the the Connecticut coast. What an odd looking island.

We loaded the boat up with drugs before we left, a.k.a. apple cider donuts These things are crack!

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We had booked our slip using the Dockwa app and were disappointed when it was declined. I think the larger boat is going to present a challenge at many of the smaller marinas that I will seek a slip. We made a last minute decision to anchor in Morris Cove New Haven, CT.

Today’s trip salted up the pilothouse windows after I spent a while cleaning all the salt off of them. I’m leaving them salty till tomorrow morning when I deal with them again.

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Today’s trip looked something like this.