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Originally Posted by way-happy
Thanks for the referral. Yeah that's what we are thinking...wait for that nice big slow moving high to settle into the area and then jump to Norfolk!
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You don't want to wait for the high...no
wind...just wait till frontal
passage even if it's screaming with small craft warnings.
Two years ago I helped a buddy take his
Catalina 42 to Charleston in late October. He wanted to wait and I said trust me..we waited one day more until the front passed about 6AM and we left Townsends Inlet (about 20 south of Atlantic City). We screamed at 8 plus knots all the way to Cape May...slowed to 7.5 at the mouth of DELBAY as it was about 6 footers for a couple miles...sped back to 8 plus till Ocean City when the
wind started to die but to make time we ran the
engine slow. Chincoteague at sunset...Norfolk at * the next morning and pulled into Coinjock, NC just 36 hours after leaving Townsends Inlet NJ....NOT BAD!!!! But the
engine was turning just enough to keep our speed around 8 or so knots.