The book Vacation Cruising in Chesapeake And Delaware Bays was written by author Joseph T. Rothrock Here you can read free online of Vacation Cruising in Chesapeake And Delaware Bays book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Vacation Cruising in Chesapeake And Delaware Bays a good or bad book?
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It may, almost without provocation, so far as wind l8o VACATION CRUISING IN goes, be quite rough enough for any small boat. In less than half an hour I have seen a very ugly sea " kicked up" by opposing wind and tide, and one against which it was exceedingly difficult to beat Two harbors offer at the upper end of the bay, — Salem Creek, on the New Jersey side, and the channel between Reedy Island and the Dela- ware shore. The latter, however, furnishes only a partial protection. TKey are good s...tarting-points J for a long run down the bay. It should be said that Salem Creek is a hard place to get out of, if the tide be against you, unless the wind enables you to run tolerably " free." Almost due east from the light on the lower end of Reedy Island is the entrance to Alloway*s Creek, on the Jersey shore. This can be entered directly by a vessel drawing four feet of water. Run within, say, two or three hundred yards of the shore, and the creek-mouth cannot well be missed. It affords a safe and most desirable anchorage for small craft in heavy weather.
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