Today was less than perfect! The wind was blowing as you can see in the photo of the flag next to the light house as we were leaving the channel from Kingston. In fact moments before Barb snapped this photo I had a small two masted sail boat that couldn’t strike their sails end up in the rocks on the break wall! For the next six hours we proceeded slowly down the river with over cast skies, white caps and some fairly large debris floating by! We zigged and zagged as we looked for a safe way around and through all of the debris. Again we had another day with very little traffic. This is one big body of deep water that is constantly moving either up or down stream due to the tides. We were told that this is one of the wettest Junes on record and has crippled the boating industry. The marinas are dying for business.
The day wasn’t all glum and doom ---- there were times when the wind die
d down and we got to see some of the major mansions like the Vanderbilt’s, Franklin D. Roosevelt and others that line this magnificent river. We cruised through the highlands and past West Point. We even saw Bannerman’s Medieval Scottish castle (on right) built in the 1800s. We made port in Haverstraw, NY, fueled up and were safely tied up by 5:30. The forecast isn’t great for tomorrow but we have only 35 miles to travel to our destination for three days while we enjoy New York City!
The day wasn’t all glum and doom ---- there were times when the wind die
d down and we got to see some of the major mansions like the Vanderbilt’s, Franklin D. Roosevelt and others that line this magnificent river. We cruised through the highlands and past West Point. We even saw Bannerman’s Medieval Scottish castle (on right) built in the 1800s. We made port in Haverstraw, NY, fueled up and were safely tied up by 5:30. The forecast isn’t great for tomorrow but we have only 35 miles to travel to our destination for three days while we enjoy New York City!
