One of many humpback whale sightings off the Jersey Shore.
Perfect conditions in the open ocean off New Jersey.
Porpoises feeding in the Atlantic
Cormorants in take off!
Sunset at the Stone Harbor Yacht Club after a long day’s run in the ocean and the New Jersey Intracoastal Waterway.
A dredger at work in the New Jersey Intracoastal Waterway, a continuous task with the constantly moving shoals.
Snow Goose chef and first mate Pim van Hemmen giving the cauliflower the Dutch treatment.
Lots of current. Sometimes it helps you and other times you fight it.
Sunrise from Snow Goose in Chesapeake City, Maryland
The best crabs in Chesapeake City!
Coffee time on the main drag in Chesapeake City, Maryland.
Chesapeake City at dawn.
Sunrise over the Chesapeake City bridge from Snow Goose’s flybridge heading towards the Chesapeake Bay and Annapolis.
Snow Goose’s stern wave reflects a great sunrise sky.
Beautiful fall colors along the C&D canal.
A blur of speed (8 knots) on the Goose!
Nautical photographer Onne van der Wal and his wife, Tenley, spent the past two years refitting Snow Goose, their 1986 Grand Banks 32, with the goal of taking her south for the winter. On October 11th, Onne and Soundings executive editor Pim Van Hemmen left New York City while Tenley returned to Rhode Island to attend to some business. Snow Goose reached Annapolis, Maryland five days later. Along the way, Onne and Pim spotted whales and porpoises along the Jersey Shore, poked their way through the shallow New Jersey Intracoastal Waterway, visited Cape May, New Jersey, motored up Delaware Bay and into the C&D canal where they visited Chesapeake City, Maryland, before entering Chesapeake Bay. This gallery captures some of the highlights of leg 2 in pictures. Soundings will cover Snow Goose’s run south, leg by leg, as she continues down the ICW and makes her way over to the Bahamas.
