After a few weather delays which caused us to wait in the C&D to cross the Delaware River, then stop in Cape May, then stop in Atlantic City, then stop for a few days in Mantoloking at Treasure Cove Marina, we crossed over to New York. When we are underway, we watch the radar and also have an AIS feed on our radio. In this shot of the radar, you can see the landmass of New Jersey to the left, and something reading at the top of the screen. We were too far out to have the NY landmass on the screen, but did see a few signatures in front of us. On the AIS, each dot within the circle represents a ship that has an AIS signal being sent out. On the chartplotter, there are shipping seperation zones.
As we approached Jones Inlet, we saw a large group of ships at anchor. We are presuming that they stopped here to either wait for a pilot or wait for a slot to go into Sandy Hook or New York. Kind of fun pulling up the AIS information on the ships from the radio, and matching it with the ships as we moved through the group.
M/V Leap of Faith 