Today we took advantage of that mid-day outgoing tide we discovered yesterday. We drove to Sandy Hook in the morning and left a car - which took us quite a while given the detour caused by the bridge construction. We also used the GPS to mark the spot to head to with the boat.
Then after lunch, we put the boat in at home and paddled the 9 1/4 miles to Horseshoe Bay. The tides gave us a nice ride most of the way. We averaged 4.2 mph overall with very relaxed paddling. We went under the new bridge being built
and reached our top speed of 8.6 mph there. The winds were light, but the water was churned up by all the boats, though Horsehoe Bay was nice and calm.
I had thought it might be fun to paddle between Sandy Hook and the beach near S's house sometime, but there is way too much boat traffic along there.
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