Day 5, Wednesday, October 6th

We pulled anchor and left Atlantic City at 7:00 am. We were greeted by a school of Dolpins who followed us out of the channel. It was a beautiful morning. The wind was out of the SSW at 10-12 knots and the seas were 1-2 feet.  We were able to close reach down the rest of the coastline. Since we should have been in Cape May we had to make a decision to make a run at the C and D Canal about 90 nm or stop in Cape May and lose another day. We decided to make a run for it.  We passed Cape May and turned into the Delaware Bay.  The SSW winds which had us on a close reach down the coast were now on our nose. The bay was very choppy and iratic as usual. We pulled the genoa and motored under main sail.  As dark approached we were still 3 hours from the first available stop over at Chesapeake City which is located at the East end of the canal.  We sailed strictly by instruments along side the shipping lane in the bay to avoid any close encounters with the tankers and containerships. We entered the canal around 8:00 pm and navigated our way to Chesapeake City where we dropped anchor and called it another day.