On Fri, 9 Jul 2004 14:47:45 -0400, "Trevor Miller"
wrote:

Thanks much...yes - 6 to 8 close doesn't sound like fun.

How hard is it to get past the breakers on the way out and then back in?

I never went that way. Every time I've gone from the bay to the ocean
I've gone through the Cape May canal, which goes from the Cape May Ferry
terminal to Cape May harbor, and then out to the ocean from the harbor.
While overnighting in the harbor on a windy evening I talked to someone
on a 40+ foot sailboat who wanted to go the other way, i.e., up the bay
to the C&D canal. But they couldn't go through the Cape May canal and
had to go out and around into the mouth of the bay. They had already
been waiting for 3 days for the weather to clear up enough for them to
do that. I had just come from the bay via the canal and it was pretty
exciting. I might have tried going out and around with my boat if I was
on a schedule. They were not. They had young kids and were living
aboard the boat and homeschooling the kids, traveling around the world.

Steve