Blue Moon is launched and we have slowly been getting her ready for our beloved fall season in Annapolis. Earlier in the year we thought about bringing her to New England for the summer, but we still have a long way to go to get her to be an ideal live aboard. So we decided to keep her local this year and instead hitch a ride on a very good friend’s Sabre 45 Salon Express powerboat, which is a much faster way to get up north for a week of great Long Island Sound cruising.

We had a great cruise, and below is the most exciting video footage we captured during the trip down the southern Delaware Bay. This video shows what happens when you push a weather window and travel to Cape May with a strong ebb current running against a 15-20 knot southerly wind. And this wasn’t the height of it – in this video we were still making 11 knots or so but shortly after we had to slow to 4-6 knots to keep the boat from beating itself to death. Despite the 45’s significant sheer, after this video was shot we managed to comprehensively stuff the bow at least 5 times and wash green water back to the windshield! Watch those weather forecasts, folks, and if this kind of thing isn’t your cup of tea avoid a wind-against-current scenario on the Delaware Bay!