IDA is here and gone, - life jacket works

Being this far north we planned on having less impacts from hurricanes, you know they are suppose to stay down in Florida.  Anyways Henri came through and we saw little wind and rain where we were at.  Ida is now coming through so we moved to a protected spot for wind, Coney Island Creek.  We knew the rain was going to be a lot, 3 to 5 inches, and we got that.  We  received 3 weather warnings on our phone for flooding issues.  We were low on boat water but filled our 100 gallon tank in about 2 hours with rain water using our rain catcher. 

Dean used the time wisely to pre-scrub the boat for a fresh water rinse.

After the storm, nice sunny skies. In the harbor you could see the  wrecks have been there a while, one with the yellow top is an old home made submarine, this is low tide.

Had a visitor that was not afraid of us at all.

We pulled out mid afternoon, and made the sail down to Cape May, NJ.   Beautiful sail.  Left around 2:30 afternoon, and were anchored by 6:00 a.m.     That was a 116 mile run, and we averaged 7.5 knots, with following seas.  It was a beautiful sail, but it got down to around 60 degrees on the boat outside overnight, so chilly.   Boat did great, just a main and our jib.  Just a few gusts above 15 knots, so we were quite happy.  No photos, as it was dark most of the time.   

We had a casualty on the trip.  At the end, Dean went forward to take down the jib, just before entering the breakwater to Cape May.  Must have gotten his "pull to inflate" cord caught on something, because he got quite the surprise.  Good to know they work, but now we have to figure out how to reload and return the inflatable life jacket to working state.   

The inflatable harness/life jackets we got are great, as they are light, and have built in harness, so while we are out on the ocean, we clip into a safety line we rig.  In case we go over, the jacket self-inflates.

You can see the small yellow pull strap on the harness when deflated.   If this is pulled, or the harness gets submerged in water, it will inflate.

Guess we will have to figure out how to secure the emergency self inflate cord better so this won't happen again.

Plan is to head out on Sunday to sail north on the Delaware Bay.