We Love New York!

A quick post to let those of you that are following along know that we made it to New York. The weather could have been better but we don't have any control over that. I will fill in the blanks with what pictures we have tonight - stay tuned.

PYC to ............?

We left off at Poughkeepsie Yacht Club, what a place. Before we left Mary and I tried to ride the bikes to the Vanderbilt Mansion. Didn't figure on the hills so we abandoned that idea although we could probably have got there getting back????????????
So we topped up on water, pumped out and gassed up before leaving for Peekskill because our plans to stop at West Point were scuppered. Did I mention the lousy weather?

Rain stopped play at approximately 15:10 - we couldn't see more than a 100 yards in front of us. We found a mooring field at Chelsea (41 32.9955N 73 58.5694W) and gabbed a ball!

Can you see the mooring ball behind us - we"re hooked up to one just like it! As the title of the Blog says, we're making it up as we go along.

The following morning was foggy (what a surprise) so we waited. 8:40 am and the fog had cleared enough to cast off. It was wet, rain, mist all day. As you can see my phone camera doesn't take good pictures in bad weather.

Interesting geography and finally West Point - like I said is was wet! It cleared a little as the day wore on and we stopped at Havestraw Marina for a spot of lunch then on to another mooring field on the north side of the Tappan Zee bridge. We kind of snuck in but the boating season is over so nobody came looking for fees!



Today's the Day!

Up at 7:00 am, put the kettle on - Ron doesn't function until he's had a cup of coffee! Misty again but nothing to be concerned about and so we're off to the big apple, finally. We could only see a couple of miles ahead which was a shame but in spite of everything we had a good run..

At the top the Tappan Zee bridge, Canadian company (what boat is that) the George Washington Bridge and yes New York. Just at the back of the ferry is the Empire State. We borrowed a 2008 Cruising Guide for the Hudson from the bar tender at PYC, in it it listed the Liberty Landing at $2 a foot and Liberty Harbour at $2.50. When we got here Liberty Landing was $4 and Liberty Harbour $3.12 + $3 a day for electricity so we"re docked at Liberty Harbour. Don't ask about WiFi.

Once docked we went walk about to (you guessed it) Liberty Park,this is where we'll get the ferry to Ellis Island and Liberty Island to see the Statue of (yes) Liberty. Then to the local diner for eats - yummmmm!

Empty Sky Memorial which points to where the Twin Towers were and on the left (out of site) is the new tower being built. Maybe we can get better pictures tomorrow if the weather improves as its supposed to. Brownstone Diner at the corner of Grand and Jersey and it was grand.

The new tower will be 1776 feet tall a figure symbolic of the United States Declaration of Independence ta-da! A work in progress you can see rising above the end of the pier.