Roger wrote:
How much gas did you burn this Memorial Day weekend (Sat-Sun-Mon) in
your boat(s)?

Me first: 29 gallons @ $2.87/gal.

Only 18 gallons tooling around the bay and backwaters in South Jersey
from Great Egg Harbor (Beasley's Point) to Cape May and back, on
Sunday. Did not do the planned run to Ocean City, Md., via Indian
River Bay and Assowoman Canal, and back, as conditions on the ocean
were just not favorable; I headed out Corson's Inlet at about 10:30 and
it was just really a little too rough to go to Cape May and cross the
Delaware Bay as I was planning (thankfully I"d gleaned some good info
from this ng about how the bay). Down at Cape May I tried again to
poke out the inlet and it had flattened (although I'd lost a lot of
time by then just exploring a lot of the swamp creeks and stuff) but a
really thick fog had set in all over the ocean, didn't affect the bay
at all but when you headed out the inlet you couldn't even see the end
of the jetties. So it was not meant to be! So I stayed to the
one-tank-per-ride rule that I've been limiting myself to so far this
year, even though I had planned to make an exception for this ride.

Of course the nice relatively cheap NJ gas prices were a relief.

richforman