Friday
5/11 Our goal is to 'Cross our Wake' today - that is crossing over the same
stretch of water where we began our Loop almost a year ago. We need to
time our transit of the East River and its Hell Gate to depart the
Battery 2 hours after low tide. We calculated a 12:30 departure from
Great Kills and approached NY City from the south. We were blessed with
clear conditions and calm seas (outside of boat wakes) and the interactions
with commercial traffic were all logical and manageable.
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| Approaching the Verrazono Bridge and NYC |
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| NYC |
We passed right
by the famed Statue of Liberty and then CROSSED OUR WAKE! at the Battery
- New York City @ 2:55 pm. . .
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| Exact location where we crossed our wake |
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| Tim captured it a picture of our wake crossing on the chartplotter |
Now
we need to pass through Hell Gate. Our last time through one year
ago we passed through at slack water. We are now going with the current
which probably boosted our speed three knots. We hit some pretty
turbulent water at Hell Gate, but OBSERVER powered though it.
Before we knew it we were in Long Island Sound and we picked up a free
town mooring @ Port Washington on the North Shore of Long Island @ 5:00.
We launched to dinghy and got Millie to shore, then we went back in and
had a fantastic celebratory meal at Louie's.
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| Port Washington anchorage |
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| Tim and Millie headed for some green grass |
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| Yum! |
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