Ride the sail...UNDER your boat...

Fred part II in Manasquan...we finally squeezed through the bridge and made a hard turn to starboard to pull up at the Gas Dock in Brielle (Manasquan). There was a brisk current and a nice breeze going, and Fred said we would be able to simply "back up" into a slip next to the gas dock without using sail or motor. This, he intended us to do, by riding the currents on the "sail under the boat" - in otherwords our keel - and making minute adjustments to the tiller. Unbelievably enough, this did work! It did take between 20 minutes and 1/2 hour, but we did it without crashing into anything and were just so happy to be safe! Fred was quite an interesting and entertaining character, and he entertained us with stories for another 1/2 hour afterwards. He even offered to buy us a beer at the local bar! (That never happened before when we pulled into a marina). At any rate, we were very glad to leave Manasquan for Atlantic City in the cool, quiet hours of the morning the next day. Atlantic City was entirely too much. We pulled into the State Marina, but it was rapidly being subsumed by the Donald Trump Marina Casino complex. Bad bands doing oldies until way too late at night outside on the bar deck. Enough said. Next day on to Cape May which was, in fact, gorgeous!!! We spent and extra day there and enjoyed a 4-mile beach walk on the most outstanding beach in New Jersey. The town itself is charming. We were fortunate to be able to dinghy into the floating dock at the Lobster House and enjoy not only the food but also the proximity to all shopping needs. Then on through the Chesapeake and Delaware canal, a very pleasant stopover in Chesapeake City where there is a lovely little jewelry store, and then a quiet anchorage at Veasey Cove in the Bohemia River. We are now at at little town called Havre de Grace, Maryland which is at the top of the Chesapeake Bay in the mouth of the Susquehanna. Wayne has been kind enough to let me type away for quite some time now, so the above entry will be expanded upon a little later. For now, we are enjoying exploring this quiet little town which is a legendary and ancient port.