This is the day we thought we'd be arriving in New York Harbor, but here we sit in Lewes. There's a 20-knot wind out of the north, which isn't propitious for northbound sailing. The weather forecast for tomorrow and Monday is favorable, so we'll probably leave in the morning. It's a good thing we didn't agree to meet Linda in New Haven on the 22nd; we'd never have made it.
This harbor is protected from the east, south, and west, so of course the wind is blowing from the north, where there's no protection whatsoever. The Jofian is rocking and bouncing like crazy. I've been taking Dramamine to keep from getting seasick at anchor!
We've been invaded by flies the past couple of days. We've been swatting like crazy, but for every one we zap, a dozen more take its place. We even bought two more fly swatters, so we can have one in the main cabin, one in the cockpit, and one in the aft cabin.
The wind and waves died down a little in the afternoon, so we paddled to town. Had a hard time getting into our Royaks with the boat bouncing up and down. When we did get in them, we paddled against the wind for a few minutes to be sure we could handle it, and then we blew into the channel.
Crossed the bridge and wandered around. We wanted to get a Tide Tables book, but no one had any. Got a local tide table at one store. We also wanted to get some fresh fish for supper, but didn't find any that looked good, and it was very expensive, so we went back to the IGA market and bought some chicken and a few other groceries.
The wind had died down considerably by the time we got back to our Royaks, so we didn't have any problem returning to the boat.
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