- 61.9 miles
- 6 hours 56 minutes (includes about 45 minutes of waiting for marina to respond to us)
- 8.9 mph average speed
Thanks to Tim’s advice at Delaware City Marina, we had a great day to travel to Cape May and traveled with several other Loopers. We passed a lot of large ships and barges along the way:
Once we arrived in Cape May, we had a terrible time getting the marina to respond to both radio and phone calls. Once they finally responded and gave us our slip assignment, we began to pull into the marina only to meet another Looper boat, Clean Cut, heading to the same slip from the fuel dock. Kevin had to maintain our boat in the fairway with another boat behind us and strong cross winds while they figured out where to put the two boats and docked Clean Cut. It was quite a mess but we were both finally docked.
We walked to the town and passed a lot of beautiful houses before ending up at the Washington Street Mall which is several pedestrian only blocks of shops and restaurants in the heart of Cape May.
We stopped in a Five & Dime which had a soda fountain in the back.
After walking through Washington Street Mall, we walked to the Jersey Shore.
We then walked to see the famous “Painted Lady” houses although they were not near as pretty as all of the homes we passed earlier in our walk.
We ended the day with dinner at the Lobster House restaurant and decided the weather was favorable the next day for our trip to Atlantic City.