It's a good Friday

Yesterday was one of those days. We had pulled up late, the night before, next to a  gas dock at Hoffmans Marina and planned on fueling up and moving on. The gas dock guy arrived at six and started yelling at us for being parked at his gas dock and being in his way.He made it clear that he hated sailboats. He next demanded two dollars a foot dock rental and no we could not use the bathrooms or showers and get the F.... off his dock. We finally got and payed for fuel and shoved off at 6:00 am..
After we cleared the channel we were out in the ocean again and it was cool and windy with a south wind. After about 2 hours the wind and waves picked up to 6-8 foot rolling waves with the tops blown off. The temps were in the high 40s low 50s so it felt pretty cool, Around noon we herd a big noise and realized that the anchor had came loose and 100 feet of chain and 100 feet of rope went out. In 50 feet of water the anchor set and set hard. Next challenge was to get the anchor unset and all that line and chain back in the boat. Tom and George went on deck fighting the wind and waves to get it all sorted out. After about an hour it was all sorted out and Tom and George were safely back in the cockpit. Other than the wind and waves the day went well until we went into an anchorage in Barnegeat Bay. Any who has ever sailed into this harbor knows that it is full of shoals and sandbars. We ran aground going into the anchorage but got it out using the stay sail and the motor. The nice sunset and George's dinner made the end of the day seem a lot better.
We awoke this morning to a 51 degree temp with a wind chill of 38, but the sun is shining.There is still a small craft warning so we decided to wait it out and head out Saturday. As we are waiting out heavy winds and seas there is time to clean the boat and us. There was a Canadian boat that we saw on the Hudson acnhored next to us last night but they chose to brave the heavy seas and move on. We are going to try once more to get someone up the mast to get some lights working. We have been using temporary lights to be legal but we really need at least a steaming light. The anchor light will have to wait until somewhere quiet to fix that.I couldn't send any pictures today as we have really limited bandwidth on the Internet connection. The spell checker doesn't seem to be working so bear with me.