Cape May (NJ)-Ocean City (MD) today. We left Cape May around 8am while the tide was going out. Didn't have much trouble getting out of slip but had a guy help us with holding the sternline just in case. Got some pics and video of the fishing fleet on our way out. Then had great 20kt gusting to 25 following winds so got both sails out and hand steered past the Delaware river to Ocean city. The current coming out of the river and the waves and everything made hand steering preferable to avoid an accidental jibe. We do not currently have a preventer, but I talked to Mal about it and we think there is a way to have an eyelet or something installed in the track on the underside of the boom so runs don't have to be so stressful. Well, maybe not stressful but, less extremely vigilant and cautious. Coming into Ocean City inlet wasn't too bad, the markers were good. We came in around 2:30. HOWEVER. Docking at sunset marina was a nightmare even worse than Rock Hall. The pilings with a short dock on the side was the same set up, only I was totally unable to heave our extra large (HEAVY) lines the distance to get over the piling. Plus there was a 10-20kt adverse cross wind shoving us hard off the side we needed to tie up to. Finally a dock hand came on to show us how to "lasso" the pilings, and even he failed half a dozen times which made me feel better. Also, I really don't think lassoing was the best option because it is going to be unnecessarily tricky to get the loops back off. If we had just thrown the line over and cleated it back on the boat, at least when we leave I could let the line go and pull it back in quickly. Mal is confident it won't be a problem when there isn't so much wind, and I hope that is the case. We are planning to leave tomorrow at midnight when the wind is projected to die down to just 4kts so fingers crossed. Then we will do the full stretch to Norfolk in one go with just taking turns having 10 minute naps. I think this is going to be good night watch training even if we don't actually trade off shifts. I'm excited to see the sunrise out off the coast, and also the stars. I have only sailed at night on full moon sails up until now so there was quite a lot of light actually, but we will have a waning crescent moon tomorrow with only 17% illumination and moonrise isn't set to happen until 2:39am, so I am curious to see how hard it is to see in the complete dark. Lucklily there aren't lots of buoys and obstacles out there off the coast. Albert says to keep the coastal lights to starboard and tack if you hear surf sounds. lol We should get into Norfolk during daylight hours this way.