Made it 150 miles, Cape May to Hampton, VA

We zig zagged down the coast of NJ off Ocean City headed to Cape May for fuel. See the yellow zig zag track.

 Here's the Nav Station in the Salon bathed in red LED lights at night so we don't lose night vision at the helm.  Also nice view of new blue GPS that Drew installed.  Upper right yellow is the VHS radio to listen to other boats or coast guard announcements, lower yellow is the music radio.

This is the Ipad Navionics at the helm that we rely on for where we are.  Shows a route, speed, distance to destination.  Also the little VHS radio in the cockpit.

We have to time it so we come into the harbor during daylight hours.
Sunset in the west with Adam.

 Moonrise in the east.

Motoring again the whole way with the sails up for stability we spent 5 hours at 6k Thursday, Oct 20 to get here. 
We arrived at the Cape May Inlet and selected Utsch's Marina, a sharp turn at 6' depth to get in for fuel and a slip.  We walked around the area searching for the cute gingerbread houses Cape May is known for, but it appears many are gone now.
We saw other sights and ate at the Lobster House. 

Adam, Drew and me with Shawnee in the background at Utsch's.

 We did not need the service, but good to know it's available. LOL

 Shark swimming out of the building.

Cape May lighthouse

 Sunset at the beach.

 The Senior Citizen pavilion with Mazu watching the sunset.

After a nice breakfast in the cockpit,

We took off from Cape May Inlet for Hampton Pier, a day motoring into the wind again/still.  Can't seem to get the wind to come from the north.


On our way out we passed our good friends Cape May US Coast Guard Station:

We motored down the coast of the DelMarVa peninsula and entered the Chesapeake Bay just in time to see a new US Navy ship, the Zumwalt, according to my son, Dillon, it was just launched a few days ago.  Pretty distinctive looking.

 We had to stay 500 yards off.  Another sub was also coming out to protect this boat.  Gunner boats surrounded them both.

 machine gun on the front.   Your tax dollars at work.

  As you can see the seas are flat - no wind. It's been like that or winds from the south head on.  We motored up the Hampton River to the Hampton Public Pier to go into a slip.
AND of course a couple of fixes, day one leaky toilet seal - my fix.
Take off the toilet, make a new seal with rubber we have, cutting out the screw holes.
Replace the toilet.

Day two here Drew fixed the engine door seal that came off, repaired the screen doors to the companionway (I oiled them), and he replaced the leaky blue water pump.  He also replaced the water filter to the watermaker in the bin.

 The fun part was going with boat neighbors to a new craft beer opening right at the pier, Bull Island.  We had drinks together before those two boats headed south on the ICW. 
We'll go tomorrow, Monday, just ahead of the Salty Dog rendezvous group also going to Florida.  Weather forecast looks favorable. Of course on the ICW we can only go during the day and must have our motor on.  Since this is our 4th trip we feel pretty experienced and after looking on ActiveCaptain.com for any storm problems we only see Nav Aids that are missing from the route.  It's 5 days south to Moorehead City, VA and back out on the ocean.