2022: NYC East River

 26 August 2022

Depart: Port Washington mooring ball 9:50

Arrive: Home, Rumson, NJ 3:00

Distance: 43 nm

Clark said that if we left Port Washington around 10:00 a.m. that would put us at Hell Gate for the trip on the East River at a good time to catch the current with us. We got underway shortly before his target time.

It has been a number of years since we traveled in Long Island Sound and down the East River. I am always confused by the bridges on the river because there are so many. This time I wrote down the names as we passed under each one.

On our way home today, we passed under the following bridges:

Starting from Long Island Sound, 

   Throgs Neck Bridge

   Whitestone Bridge

   Hell Gate Bridge

East River Bridges

   RFK Tri Borough Bridge

   Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge

   Williamsburg Bridge

   Manhattan Bridge

   Brooklyn Bridge

Leaving NYC ...

    Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge

and Entering Monmouth County NJ ...

   Highlands Bridge 

   SeaBright Bridge.

I must admit I got "snap happy" with the camera, but the trip through NYC on the East River was so much fun. No matter how many times through here, with a favorable current and nice weather, the  trip is exciting. We got the quick tour as, with the current taking us along, we were "flying by" at almost 12 kts. That's almost 14 mph! 

Stepping Stones Lighthouse
on Long Island Sound

Throgs Neck Bridge - First bridge of many

US Army Corps of Engineer Vessel

Rikers Island

Rikers Island

Rikers Island

Hell Gate Bridge

RFK Triborough Bridge

Picking up speed as we travel the river!

Wouldn't be NYC
without the "Circle Line" tour boat

Queensboro Bridge coming up

Queensboro Bridge

Queensboro Bridge

I noticed some pretty unusual architecture as we floated by.

UN Building

Bent building connected to "twin"

ConEdison Plant

Bike / Walking Trail along river

Williamsburg Bridge

Wobbly? architecture

NYC Water Taxi

Brooklyn Bridge

Building with a fat belly

Manhattan Bridge

Staten Island Ferry

Ferry Terminal

Freedom tower

Statue of Liberty

Verrazano-Narrows Bridge

We had pretty warm temperatures today. Clark and I discussed anchoring out at Sandy Hook for one night before coming in - perhaps to catch a breeze as we knew there would be little to no breeze in our creek. Unfortunately, the weather forecast for later, thunder storms, made the decision for us. We would go all the way home and run air conditioning on the boat to keep cool. 

As we approached the SeaBright Bridge, we noted that the tide was going out and we might be able to squeeze under the bridge instead of waiting 40 minutes for an opening. Clark lowered the radar tower and then climbed out the side of the boat to lower the antennas. Whenever he stands out there 12 feet over the water on a ledge 4" wide holding on one-handed with his fingertips, I hope and pray no boats go by and make a wake! 

We got home at 3:00. Clark went up to the house and turned on water and hot water, and did all the other things that need to be done to bring the house back into daily operation. I stayed on the boat to get things organized ready to be taken off the boat tomorrow. Before I could move back into the house, I would need to run the vacuum cleaner and dust to make it less of an allergy-producing environment. That work could wait for a day.

Home on our creek

27 August 2022

I worked at it all day long to take things off the boat. Because of the "flooding" experience as well as having had company on board for weeks, I had stacks of laundry. I had "hidden" portions of it to make space. As I dragged laundry up to the house, I kept remembering more hiding places. It took me two days of almost constant running of the washer & dryer to get it all done. 

Besides laundry, I had food to bring up to the house from the fridge, cupboards, and my "pantry". I made so many trips with it all. I did not have to worry about a lack of exercise as we transitioned venues!

Of course we had things to fix on the boat when we got back. The list is never-ending.  Clark keeps a running list of things to address on the boat as they present themselves. This time, for example, the dinghy lift was on the fix list.