- 44 miles
- 4 hours 30 minutes
- 9.8 mph average speed
- 7-11 mph winds
We decided to leave Cape May a day earlier than planned in order to have a better weather day for our trip to Atlantic City since we would be traveling outside (in the ocean) versus the New Jersey Intracoastal Waterway (NJICW). There is much debate among Loopers regarding traveling via the NJICW. Some say it is too shallow in some areas and others, most of whom are more familiar with the area, say it is beautiful and not to be of concern. We opted to take what we thought would be a safer route given that we had a good weather window to travel on the outside. We traveled with two other Looper boats, Happy Daze and Clean Cut.
We saw a lot of dolphin as we were approaching Atlantic City, probably the most we had ever seen at one time. It is just not as exciting as it was on the west coast of Florida where they would follow along with us in our wake!
There were several other Loopers at the marina which is part of a the Golden Nugget Casino. Ellen had emailed our friends Zuby and Ilyas, Non-Loopers whom we had met in Brunswick and Charleston, who live in Atlantic City to see if we could get together with them while we were there before we noticed that we were in a slip across the fairway from their boat, Rehmat. We made plans to get together Monday evening but we ended up leaving Atlantic City a day early and were disappointed we did not get to see them. They had made a nonstop run on the outside from Charleston to Atlantic City in THREE days! We traveled from Charleston to Atlantic City making 17 stops in 32 days!
We took a jitney to the Boardwalk and walked around, had lunch and saw the beach before meeting up with the other Loopers for docktails.
