Mahi Mahi – May 27/28; Cape May to Atlantic City.

Ok Folks, I’m sure you missed us yesterday with no blog post for the day, but there was nothing to report.

It rained ALL DAY !!!

We left the very nice South Jersey Marina after 2 nights of $248 per night (nice, but not that nice).

Ok, back to our semi-stressful challenge from our last post = risk of Grounding on the New Jersey ICW vs Large Waves in the Atlantic Ocean.

So yesterday during the rain day, we studied ICW Grounding Risk vs Atlantic Ocean Wave Risk.

We chose the Atlantic Ocean Waves. We had large 6-8ft rollers, but they were on our Starboard Quarter Stern & pushing us most of the ride. It was like riding a 42ft surf board into the marina. Good job Captain Jerry !

We are currently at the Farley State Marina in Atlantic City. It is a big marina with 630 floating slips. It has some really big vessels. It is also directly connected to the Golden Nugget Casino.

For dinner, we just wanted a burger after a long day on the water. We wondered thru the Casino/Hotel & one of the workers told us to go up to the rooftop pool bar, so we did !!!

At the pool bar, we met the very young but accomplished 30 year old Captain Briss Bliss & Assistant Captain Matt. Briss is currently the Captain of a 80ft Marlow Yacht. He is 24/7 on this vessel, reporting directly to the owner. He flies his wife in every other week on the owners dime. The guy has done more Big Boating than me & Captain Luck combined, at age 30.

We talked Boating and stories about all the waterways from Michigan to Key West. He was such fun to talk to and I was amazed how much the young guy knew at such a young age.

We left the roof top bar looking for a burger joint, and some how ended up in an unlocked penthouse suite 😃

We finally did find the burger joint, but the burgers were $25, so we came back to the Mahi for Deena warm ups & free drinks.

But on the way back to the boat, we had to walk thru a party at the Bar/Hotel connected to the marina.

It was a charity fund raiser. We were tempted to have a free dinner at the fund raiser, but decided to behave like adults and have dinner on the Mahi.

More to come on Atlantic City, we will