Flexible Plans

Dobbs Ferry, On The Hudson River
N 41 01.900 W 073 53.098

Our plan was to sail to Nyack today, spend the night there, spend tomorrow night at the Statue Of Liberty, perhaps another night at Sandy Hook NY, then wait for weather window to dash south all the way to Newark Va. Well, as we listened to the weather report today, and as we studied the tide tables, it became apparent that the window is right now. Further, the window is only long enough for us to get half way -- to Cape May, NJ.

So be it. We changed our plans. Now it is almost 1900, the sun just set, and we're motoring south against the wind and the current. We're only making 3.25 knots. However, both the wind and the current should change direction soon. We should go flying past Manhattan at 23:00 and out under the Verazano Narrows Bridge by midnight. That should put us in Cape May late Sunday night or early Monday morning. From there we'll see what the next leg will be. We wanted to explore the southern Chesapeake
this time and skip the north part entirely, but the winds might change our minds.

We saw an unusual sight on the way down today. Near the Bear Mountain Bridge, a tug was towing 19 barges loaded with crushed stone. Two of them broke loose and sank in the river. Very strange. We could plainly see on of them belly up today as we passed by. What could have caused that? I suspect that one of the barges was taking on water.

The weather was very foggy and rainy today. It spoiled our views of the most beautiful part of the Hudson. Too bad.

For some reason, I can send blogs on the SSB radio email, but my incoming email is not getting through. I don't know what to do about that. I was depending on that to get daily weather forecast updates. Now we'll have to use the less accurate VHF weather reports instead.