Sailing Justice: Overnight to Sandy Hook - Part 2

The winds were mostly steady and from the same direction the whole trip overnight, as predicted. Therefore we didn't have to trim the sails much. We still watched for wind shifts and boats without AIS, by finding them on the radar and looking for their lights.

There are reasons people take few photos at night. I had my share of excuses, plus I was not going to go down below to plug in my phone or ask Dave to do anything while he was resting. So I missed taking a photo of the beautiful almost full orange moon rising. My regular camera has a disc formatting issue that we'll deal with when we have time.

Overnight highlights:

Wind was astern so we surfed down waves, our speed well matched with them. I could hear the waves breaking nearby. My hood masked much of the noise and I took it off from time to time not wanting to miss that or notice a change in the sea.
It was not very cold, and I was comfortable with my long johns, pants and snow-pants with legwarmers. 2 shirts, 2 jackets and a hat with ear covers and jacket hood. I'm glad there are not photos of that.
Not much traffic came in an out of Atlantic City at our passing time, but we couldn't miss the city lights. Quiet VHF. The lights of a cruise ship in the distance had every color in the palette including blue which looked like marine police.
Two to 4 in the morning, I dreamed we were in a busy shipping channel with ships right next to us and that the weather got worse (prob because the motion of the boat was more obvious below, but had never changed). I asked Dave if he needed help a couple of times, but he did not and insisted I get some sleep before my watch.
We motor-sailed when the winds were light, so we'd not take forever getting to Sandy Hook and risk losing our nice weather window.
My morning watch displayed a "Red sky at morning" sunrise. (You know the rest... Sailors take warning". The saying doesn't tell "when" to look out!). Clouds hovered over our destination to the west and I kept an eye on the visibility of the lights on shore, waiting for them to be extinguished by rain. When I thought the rain was getting close, I woke Dave so we could put up the rain enclosure and don foul weather gear if we wanted.
During Dave's morning watch, he managed to steer around a thunderstorm! (I said "just like you do when flying". He said "I can get closer to these."
We anchored at Atlantic Highlands 11:50 am Thurs 5/23.