And here’s the second of my two trips while I was in New Jersey. I launched at the top of Barnegat Bay and sailed my way down 29 miles south to just past the inlet. I made a diversion through the marsh over to the lighthouse and would have continued 17 miles to a public ramp, but I called it quits since I was relying on my father in law for transportation and didn’t want to be too late. I tested out my electric trolling motor setup for the first time as well.

https://sailingmoga.com/barnegat-bay-2022/

Recently my wife and I went up to New Jersey to help her parents move and I brought my sailboat along. The first of my two daysails was on the Shrewsbury River with a friend who helped me fiberglass the hull. It’s a pretty protected area and we stopped at an island for lunch and saw a pod of dolphins.

https://sailingmoga.com/shrewsbury-river-2022/

My first long daysail was in a 1977 Sunfish to a little island that’s since washed away. Here’s a recap as best I can remember.

https://sailingmoga.com/grog-island-2004/

In mid September my wife and our parents went down to Ocracoke Island for a week long vacation. We stayed in a cottage on Lighthouse Road and had access to a dock at the southern end of the harbor, so of course I brought my sailboat. It was a pretty windy week, but I did manage to get out on a long daysail. I ended up going 41.6 miles to nowhere in 8.5 hours. My average speed was 4.8 mph and I hit a new top speed of 9.2 mph!

https://sailingmoga.com/ocracoke-2021/

My wife and I are down at Atlantic Beach in North Carolina on vacation and on Saturday I went on a daysail to the Cape Lookout Lighthouse on the South Core Banks. To get there I circled Shackleford Banks which meant I had Moga out in the Atlantic for a few miles. There were tons of boaters though, more than I’ve ever seen. I went 32.7 miles in 8.5 hours with an average speed of 4 mph.

https://sailingmoga.com/cape-lookout-2021/

I’ve been messing around with making a topsail for my boat lately, and it’s finally been nice enough to go for a sail and give it a try. I went 18.3 miles to nowhere in particular, although I did get a picture of myself from a traffic camera.

https://sailingmoga.com/bridge-cam-2021/

Recently I went on a 34.3 mile daysail around the Mobjack Bay starting from the boat ramp on the Ware River. My average speed was 3.8 with a max of 6.9 mph. It was a pretty good day, although there were a few hours of rowing and drifting when the wind gave out.

https://sailingmoga.com/mobjack-bay-2021/

Earlier this week we had some nice weather so my wife and I took Moga out on the first sail of the year. It was just a short 3.5 mile cruise down the narrow Mill Creek, but it was enough to see that all of the improvements and repairs I did over the winter are working well.

https://sailingmoga.com/mill-creek-2021/

Last Friday I decided to go for a super long daysail from Windmill Point to Gloucester Point. I went 40.8 miles in just over 10 hours with an average speed of 4.1 mph and a max speed of 7.9 mph. It was a long, but uneventful day.

https://sailingmoga.com/windmill-point-to-gloucester-point-2020/