Traveling by boat on the ocean requires regularly looking over your shoulder for the changing weather. On this Eastern US Coast trip we have started looking at four different smartphone apps: MyRadar (showing current rain systems in our area); MyGrib (a 4-day forecast of wind speed and direction, and wave height); AyeTides (local tidal information); and Weather.com for local weather by the hour and day. Of course, smartphones require cell service which has been quite regular close to shore or in the ICW. But off shore there is no service, and we don't have a satellite phone. In addition, we contracted with Chris Parker, a meteorologist located in Central Florida, a sailor to be trusted (if you can trust a sailor!). Daily e-mails are received whether in shore or off shore using our cell phone or our SSB radio on board 'Julia Max'. Finally, tomorrow we leave for NYC, 110 miles northward from Cape May. We intend to spend a couple weeks there taking in a Broadway musical, a Yankee baseball game, a stay at the NY Athletic Club, and visits to Central Park, the Botanical Gardens, the Bronx Zoo, maybe the Statue of Liberty, etc. Cheers to all!