Floriana

We spent a lay day in Barnegat due to a malfunction of the windlass. Once we realized that the windlass showed no signs of life and the anchor would not come up, we decided to stop and confront/resolve the issue with the malfunction. Most of the day was spent at anchorage disassembling the windlass and…

First stop in New Jersey would be Barnegat Bay. Floriana motored out of Great Kills Harbor bound for Barnegat having discovered that the windlass had stopped working and the anchor (and chain) had to be pulled up by hand! Rather than stay at Great Kills and lose a day, we opted to sail to Barnegat…

Floriana raised its anchor at about 7:30 am, right after max high tide. The waters were calm and slack tide afforded us the time and tranquility to go through Fire Island Inlet…..an inlet that marine charts suggest you do not attempt to negotiate without local knowledge. Although there are red and green buoys that mark…

At 1 o’clock in the afternoon, we decided our weather window had finally presented itsel and we left our dock. Floriana had a 2 pm Captree Bridge opening and was on her way. While the bridge tender and his crew were on time, the bridge had an issue with the pin that disengages each span…