Mistakes we made on August 6th:

• Pulling into Nantuxent Cove. It was small, shallow and not very sheltered. Port Mahon, Delaware, might have been better.

• Anchoring anywhere near crab pots. Our keel and rudder protect our propellor from just about all assaults. Apparently, however, if you switch gears right over a crab pot, then Red Ranger can grab the line.

• Failing to understand what a snagged crab pot line feels like. We mis-diagnosed the resulting problem as transmission or linkage or something other than a crab pot.

Things we did—right or wrong.

• Call BoatUS and get towed. Rather than bash the crap out of the boat with a bad transmissions problem, we elected to pay for a tow to someplace out of the wind and waves.

Surprising things we learned.

• The Cohansey River, surprisingly, is easy to enter. The chart is devoid of details.

• The river has a surprisingly huge current. Choose your entry times wisely.

Scary things that happened.

• The boatyard looked very sketchy. There was a small liars club meeting out front. Almost no staff and even fewer customers. A world away from Deltaville Boatyard. It looked like the setting for an HP Lovecraft story. "The Shadow Over Innsmouth", for example.

Bottom Lines

Passage duration 0700 to 1500 (approx.) = 8:00.

Passage distance from Reedy Point to Nantuxent Bay: Reedy Point to Ship John Shoal 20 nm; 8nm to Nantuxent Bay= 28nm.

Towed 12nm to Greenwich, NJ.