Day Three

I am writing in this blog from an anchorage at Cape Henolpen. This is located right at the very bottom of Delaware Bay on the western shore. We had a nice marina stay last night and a lively motor sail down the bay. We reached the mouth of the bay right on schedule at 5:30 and turned out into the Atlantic. Within 20 mins we had fog with viability at less then 100yds and winds were building to 20kts out of the SSE. I immediately decided to turn back and duck in this "harbor of refuge" to reassess our position with respect to the overnight along the Atlantic coast. After dropping the anchor and eating a hot meal we turned on the NOAA marine forecast to see what we could expect to encounter in the next 24hrs. It didn't sound good! Light winds early from the south and northeast after midnight building to 15 to 20 with gusts higher. We three sat in the cockpit and discussed this at great length and we decided not to venture out but rather turn back up the Delaware in the morning after a good nights sleep. We plan to make it back up and through the C&D and anchor in the Bohemia River Tuesday night. Maybe over to Rock Hall for a marina stay on Wednesday. Then back to HHN on Thursday for an early or on time return depending your point of view. We were all very disappointed that we had to make this decision but we all agreed that for safety's sake it was the right one. I will turn the keyboard over to Sylvia and Alejandro for their comments in a moment. More to follow tomorrow.

Ciao,
Cap'n Dave