Another Delaware Bay disaster

[Kettlewell]

Delaware Bay living up to its reputation. https://www.capegazette.com/article/...s-beach/265575

[Chotu]

Originally Posted by Kettlewell

Delaware Bay living up to its reputation. https://www.capegazette.com/article/...s-beach/265575

Anchoring in there is definitely sketchy.

I was pushing pretty hard coming north trying to get it over with and got to the end of the C&D canal heading north at sunset. There is an area in the Delaware bay just outside the C&D canal, to the north that is marked as an anchorage.

Super sketchy Anchorage.

It’s deep. It’s uneven on the bottom. There is massive current. There is wind blowing like crazy so very steep chop.

I worried a little bit about if I was going to stay put or not. Ultimately, I did, but that anchorage is sketchy.

I’ve also had one really good run down that bay. Some northwest wind that was popping windows out of skyscrapers in New York City. That’s how windy it was.

It was in my old small catamaran. We were running with it and making record time at record speeds for that little heavy boat. Really fun actually.

But the conditions in that bay seem to change all the time. I can see where it earns a reputation as being difficult

[Kettlewell]

But the conditions in that bay seem to change all the time. I can see where it earns a reputation as being difficult

I don't know what prompted them to anchor there, but when you get wind against the current in Delaware Bay it can be brutal. I was once helping to deliver a 44-foot motorboat to Annapolis and we were taking heavy water over the flybridge headed up the bay.

[Tin Tin]

On our first venture into Delaware bay heading from the C&D to Cape May we got belted by extremely short sharp seas with wind on the nose, so we pulled in near a place called Greenwich and were instantly attacked by clouds of green headed biting flies, looked like a small horsefly.

[Nicholson58]

We anchored in about 10 feet in the broad still area south of the nuke plant. Low wind and zero current. Navionics is pretty helpful regarding currents.

[CaptTom]

Beach residents said the crew of the boat had dropped anchor and left the boat.

I get nervous leaving the boat at anchor in good conditions, even in a familiar anchorage. Of course I don't know conditions at the time, or why they left it at anchor, but this does nothing to lessen my nervousness.

[Kettlewell]

Boat pulled off beach. https://www.capegazette.com/article/...5654?source=rs

Grim, who lives in Broken Arrow, Okla., has been living on his boat and cruising southern waters for the past four years. He took a cruise north for the first time to meet friends in Essex, Conn., before sailing to Lewes on his way south to Key West, Fla., and the Gulf of Mexico. He dropped anchor in Delaware Bay in front of the Lewes Yacht Club, where his anchor chain broke. He was not on board at the time.