Motorsailed all night and all day. So far the temporary repairs Roy made to the boat are holding up just fine. We're not taking on any water other than the normal amount.
In the late afternoon, we heard dangerous thunderstorm warnings on the VHF radio. The storms were heading southeast towards Atlantic City. We don't mind rain or even thunder and lightning, but when they said the wind might gust to 55 miles an hour, we decided we better head in another direction, so we turned around. We could see the rain on radar, and we soon realized the storm was heading in the same direction we were and at a faster speed, so we turned around again and headed to where the storm wasn't. Soon the sky began clearing ahead of us, and we could see the dark clouds behind us.
We knew it would be dark by the time we got to Atlantic City, so we decided to go to Great Egg Inlet, but on our way there, we saw the skyscrapers of Atlantic City in the distance and realized we were actually closer to Atlantic City than to Great Egg Inlet, so we went to Atlantic City. Entered the channel just as dark was closing in. We were feeling our way along slowly and carefully, trying to find the marina, when all of a sudden I saw a large fishing boat bearing down on us! Its bow was headed right for us and wasn't very far away. I stumbled all over my tongue telling Roy, but he got the message and changed course in time to miss it.
We finally saw the marina and even a vacant end tie. With the aid of the searchlight, we sidled up to it and docked with no problem. By then, it was nearly ten o'clock. We walked up to the Royal Buffet for supper, but it was closed by the time we got there, so we returned to the boat and ate a can of stew with fruit cocktail for dessert.
Hundreds of birds circle over the casino in the beams of light. It's a fascinating sight. They almost look like fast-moving stars or large ashes rising from a chimney.
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