Oyster Ground Complication
Chesapeake City, Maryland to Cape May, New Jersey
Anchor to anchor - 55 miles - 15 hours (under power the whole way)

July 10th found us motoring at 5 a.m. in the cool, misty canal.  By 9 a.m. we were riding the tide doing 7.7 knots on the outside edge of the freighter channel in the Delaware River.  Unfortunately we came to an abrupt stop as our prop caught a line connecting 2 oyster floats.  With Sea Star disabled and a current running at 3 knots we gave great consideration to Barry going in the water to cut the line off the prop.  Happily he was able to safely cut us free. 
By noon the tide turned against us and the wind was 15 knots over the bow.  We were mid way through Delaware Bay, under power and making just over 1 knot progress.  At that point we had serious reservations about making Cape May by nightfall. 
We spent 3 hours tacking back and forth across the channel against the sea and wind conditions.

At 4:00 p.m. we finally made our course change mark and with the tide flowing once again in our favour we dropped anchor in Cape May just before dark.