Cape May NJ to Havre de Grace MD Well, as stated before we decided that the best weather window for leaving Cape May would be on Saturday, September 11th. Again, due to the tides we had to leave the anchorage in the dark at 4:20 AM. So much for not living by a schedule when you retire! There are quite a few shoals just off from Cape May but from the chart it looked like we could go over them, but as it the seas were rough (so much for the weather report) we decided to err on the side of caution in the dark and go out farther closer to the shipping lanes. Even though the seas were mixed when we first left Cape May the sails definitely helped in keeping us from bobbing around
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