Manhassett Bay

July 21, 2024

Wow! What a beautiful trip up from Metedeconk to Long Island Sound.

Here’s some contex for my pleasure: When you leave the Metedeconk / Bay Head area, at the northern tip of Barnegat Bay – if you’re headed north – you must transit the Point Pleasant Canal in order to reach the Manasquan Inlet and the Atlantic Ocean.

The Point Pleasant Canal can actually be very UNPLEASANT. You can watch the craziness on YouTube! A very messy place!

Anyway, today we were lucky. No speeders. No morons creating huge wakes.

And our luck held all the way through New York Harbor, up the East River, and into Manhassett Bay at the western end of Long Island Sound. Blue skies, flat seas, and moderate temperature! We flew to NY: 4.7 hours dock to dock.

I don’t often blow my own horn, but I was very pleased with the decision we made a week ago to delay the trip in order to catch calm weather! And i was grateful for weather apps that can forecast a week ahead with accuracy.

Here’s a screen shot from the weather app: Strong winds up and down the coast (the green areas) except for the window from Brick (Manasquan Inlet) north to NY and LI Sound. YOWZA!

The dark blue in the center is where we travelled today – very calm seas!

Lynn here….while Rod was running the boat and we were both enjoying the calm seas, I was amazed at the activity we saw on a Sunday morning – men at work!