After two weather days, the wind was blowing into the marina at 18
knots this morning and I needed to back out of the slip into the wind to a
narrow fairway past several boats to get to open water. Awake at 5:00 I began
to listen to the dock lines tighten and knew it would be critical to untie the
port stern line last and quickly. So I retied the line backwards from the
normal cleat arrangement. I tied the working end of the line to the cleat first
and then placed the loop over the cleat. In this way, Carol could just remove
the loop from the cleat and stow 10 feet of line rather than 40 feet. It worked
very nicely and we were able to leave the slip with no bruises to my ego.
Thanks Carol!!!
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| Towns, Railroad tracks and cliffs line the Hudson River |
This is a really beautiful part of the trip, the Hudson River is a
river valley between two mountain ranges created by glaciers a few years ago,
before I was born. Hills to New Yorkers but mountains to us. Beautiful houses
set against granite cliffs covered with trees. Everything is green and lovely. We enjoyed seeing Bear Mountain Bridge, formally opened on November 27, 1924, it was the longest suspension span in the world, and the first of its type to have a concrete deck. We passed West Point and
thought of Mathew and Ray and Linda from church, it seems to me Mathew will be
a senior next year, wow time flies. We saw dragon boat races at Poughkeepsie,
they have converted an old railroad bridge to a walking and bike path across
the Hudson River, about a mile and a half. This weekend they had a bike rally
for New York City bicyclers. Lots
happening on this holiday weekend and we are very pleased to be traveling
again. Debi, Tom, Ayla and Adam will join us this evening for dinner and they
will sleep on the boat as well, cozy accommodations. We really enjoy having
people visit and share our adventure.
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| Bear Mountain Bridge and train |
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| West Point, Stack smoke at 75 degrees?? |
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| Granite Mountains and train |
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| Saturday Commerce |
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| Bluff Top Houses |
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| America |
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| Railroad Bridge converted to walk and bike path |
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| 1871 Lighthouse |
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| Sailboats are beautiful!! |
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| Rondout Yacht Basin |
It appears that the two of you are a pretty competent pair when it comes to navigating tight spots these days! Are you on track for arriving home in September? I'd guess you're far enough north now to avoid most of the impact of other seasonal storms. Love following your blog!
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