We have a long boring day motoring up
the Delaware Bay.
Against the current almost all day, with very
little wind.
The steam column from the Salem Nuclear Power Plant makes for an excellent waypoint 30 miles south from Cape May, where all you can see is the top of the steam plume.
We stop just short of the C&D Canal and anchor behind Reedy Island with a number of other transients heading south. Very strong current here, but good holding, Still a little disconcerting because the fast current makes a fair amount of gurgling noise against the hull. I check our position many times through the night. With each tide shift we swing 180 degrees.
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| Ship John Lighthouse, Delaware Bay |
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| Salem Nuclear Power Plant cooling tower Steam |
The steam column from the Salem Nuclear Power Plant makes for an excellent waypoint 30 miles south from Cape May, where all you can see is the top of the steam plume.
We stop just short of the C&D Canal and anchor behind Reedy Island with a number of other transients heading south. Very strong current here, but good holding, Still a little disconcerting because the fast current makes a fair amount of gurgling noise against the hull. I check our position many times through the night. With each tide shift we swing 180 degrees.
Two years ago we got lucky with the
wind and currents and in one day covered 70 miles which got us all
the way into the upper Chesapeake. Today the best we could do was 50
miles.
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