Can someone tell me how to sail from Newport, RI to Anapolis?

Question

Chart through the ocean

Answer 1

cool question. I live in the desert so I am no help. I use a gps in the desert. I understand they are helpful for boats as well. good luck. I love water, but have no navigation skills I just like swimming.

Answer 2

The winds are favorable either way you choose to go, outside or inside Long Island Sound.

If you choose the inside route:

Be aware you can often hit the doldrums in the afternoon in Long Island Sound. The wind just dies.

Depending on your boat, you have to time the tide through Hell's Gate. The current is very strong there and you may not muster enough speed for headway (i.e. a negative VMG)

Both upper and lower NY Harbor are full of a lot of commercial traffic. You must yield to it all. The swells there can be quite large.

If you choose the outside route:

It'll be faster, but it's a real open-ocean sail. The winds are stronger and you can expect much larger seas off the east coast of Long Island.

Either way, the winds tend to be strongest from the southeast, so you're usually on a fairly fast albeit rolly beam reach the whole trip.

Answer 3

There are a few options, some more protected than others. From Newport, you could take the Long Island Sound along Connecticut to NYC, and than exit the harbor into the Atlantic Ocean. Or you could take the Intracoastal Waterway along New Jersey. After rounding Cape May, you could go up the Delaware Bay and take the canal near Wilmington, DE, across to the Chesapeake, and then on down to Annapolis. Or you could stay out in the ocean after passing Cape May, NJ, and go past the Delmarva peninsula and enter the Chesapeake that way, then going up to Annapolis, although this would probably take longer.

Answer 4

hey are you NAPS? or the sailing school at the naval station? just wondering...sorry to say I have no idea but I imagine you just follow the coast line once you leave the bay and get out to sea. I was just in Newport for a training and I stayed at the NAPS facilities.

Answer 5

Head due East - when you get to England, sell your boat, and buy a plane ticket to Baltimore which is close to Annapolis.

Answer 6

Row Row Row Row ya boat gentle down the street merrily merrily merrily life is but a dream....

Answer 7

Get boat
Get into boat
Shove off
Set sail

Answer 8

Maybe if you need to ask this, you should take the train...

Answer 9

in a boat

Answer 10

take a plane. it's faster