It Was A Very Good Day

Liberty Island Park NJ, N40 42 W74 04
Ocober 23. What fun today. We roared into NY Harbor past Manhattan under sail at a breakneck clip of 8.2 knots. Never mind that we had a 2 knot boost from the tide, we enjoyed the speed. Libby said, “This is the only way to do New York.” I agree. The weather was OK, mostly cloudy and cold, but occasionally sunny and warm enough. The wind was fickle because we sailed too close to the NJ Palisades. The red rock cliffs of the Palisades soared above us. On wonders how they formed that way. Remarkable.

Total trip time about 6 hours from Tappan Zee to Liberty Island. It was a lot of fun. There was very little boat traffic, considering the location. We meandered from one shore to the other looking at the sights.

We’re anchored in the same place as last summer, behind the Statue Of Liberty. This time there is one other boat anchored here with us. We plan to stay tomorrow and to visit Ellis Island. Libby has never been there.

I tried three times to get a WI-FI connection to post my backlog of blogs, but none of the tries worked. I could see lots of WI-FI sources, but they were either secured or too weak. Sorry readers, I don’t know how long it will be to get this posted. We can’t do it from the park. The only exit from this park is to the NJ Turnpike, so we’re isolated here. It seems ironic to be in the middle of the Big Apple and not be able to get anywhere on land.

The weather forecast calls for bad weather Monday night to Tuesday. We’ll see the remnants of Hurricane Wilma plus a Northeaster, with lots of rain and winds 40 to 50. Off the NJ shore the waves will be 17 to 30 feet. Needless to say, we’re going to stay here until the weather improves. If the center swings more to the west than we thought, we could get 65-75 knot winds.