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Thursday, May 31, 2012

74°01.894’ W

40°43.528’ N

Newport Yacht Club and Marina, New York Harbor

Jersey City, New Jersey

Verrazano Bridge in sight

West Bank Horn

The weather was perfect today, warm temps, blue skies and great visibility, a perfect day to cross our wake and complete the loop.

Our cruise into New York Harbor was delightful and filled with excitement! Barb and I have waited for this day for a long time cruising over 17,000 miles to complete a 6,000 mile loop! It’s been said that I can’t read a compass and that’s where the extra miles came from. One thing for sure it’s been a hoot and we wouldn’t trade a minute of it.

On the way, in about mile from the Verrazano Narrows Bridge, we were stopped by the New York Harbor police and asked for the number of people on board, our destination and if we were with the two boats behind us. Once satisfied with our response they told us to proceed to a point in the harbor where additional police boats with flashing blue lights were waiting for us to pass between them at a slow speed. All of our boats passed in review then told to have a nice day! We were told that they were part of Homeland Security!

Ferry between New York
and Sandy Hook

As we passed under the bridge Bill and Joyce on “Carried Away” and Carl and Ricki on “Quest” took lots of pictures of our memorable event. As we passed the Statute of Liberty another photo op took place for all of the boats. We then proceeded up the Hudson locating our marina for the night. The current when entering the harbor is strong and the boat is bouncing and rolling from side to side. The location is wonderful but the movement of the boat is like riding a mechanical bull! We have a wonderful view of Manhattan and sure it will be beautiful tonight.

In addition to our three looper boats there are additional loopers in the marina - Belinda & Jim that we met at Delaware City Marina on “Rickshaw” brought balloons to celebrate the crossing.

Barb and I have now struck the white burgee and replaced it with the GOLD!

Like any accomplishment - do you live in the glory of the moment or move on? Tonight we celebrate and tomorrow we continue our adventure at first light!