Jun 222011
Atlantic Ocean skies along the coast of New Jersey and Long Island, NY were truly awesome. The passage was quite smooth with ocean rollers about every 10 seconds.
The boat traffic was surprisingly light. I diverted course only once in the middle of the night to avoid a collision with a tug pulling a barge. RADAR is very helpful to read a ship’s size, location, bearing, speed and direction. We passed with about a half of one nautical mile between us.
We passed by Block Island Monday morning. It is Race Week at Block Island, so we didn’t try to moor there, but kept going to Newport. We saw a few racing boats out practicing in very light breeze.
