Believe me, after today, I hear you Gene. But our trawler doesn't heel like a sailboat, and our stabilizers keep the boat from rocking side to side, even when hit by big wakes or waves. Not being on a schedule means that I can pick my days, and today should have been an OK day. Where you're right, of course, is what happened to us. But if the engines didn't quit, it would have been a rough ride but certainly not as bad as it turned out.

We won't leave Atlantic Highlands until the forecast is for winds less than 5 knots out of the west.