Still hanging on the hook, winds of alarming velocity, today we were planning to take the dinghy ashore for provisions (beer is getting down to panic levels) but could not find a time where launching it into the water was an option rather than having it go airborne.
A brave group of lads were about earlier, when the wind was still somewhere short of gale force, they rigged one of the local cat boats and did two terrifying tacks across the river.
The boat flew across and back heeled at an angle of about fifty degrees, they then raced back to the mooring furled the sail and went home (glad to survive I would think)
About mid-day we had a visitor
She’s a custom built steel trawler, we met this one back in Cape May and the solo crew member told us there he was planning to travel up the Hudson to the West Point area (to a Pete Seeger concert at Croton on Hudson, Sunday). I thought we were slow but we had been here three days when he arrived and anchored up behind us. He’s also waiting out the weather. He may not make it to see Pete if the weather forecast holds.
Patience, patience.
Boadicea's Chariot 
Is it worth carrying on?
Beginning to sound like an endurance test! Wot no beer? How’s the wine supplies?
What about going home and trying again later in the season?
There is more rain about here too and cooler than usual for mid June. I gather the jet stream has ‘stuck’ further south than usual, so not much hope of respite weather wise until it moves north, IF it moves north this year.
Just remembering a ‘holiday’ on the Isle of Skye years back with MKII.
it positively pissed with rain sideways in a monsoon, the cottage had inadequate heating and to compound the horror they were building a new road somewhere and blasting continually!
After three days we gave up, chucked the keys back and fled, another ten days of that and one would have ended up with TB!
I always remember that the woman started to bitch about no refund. We hadn’t asked for one!!!
Just SO glad to escape!!
God how I hate holidays.
Looks like you are stuck for the moment, LW. Do you have a deadline for returning or can you just wait it out?
I don’t think they do heating in Skye, Christina. We too had a couple of cold damp nights there with a disagreeable teuchter who refused to provide any heating in his establishment, not even a small electric fire in our room. We snuck out on the Glenelg ferry and headed for a comfortable country house type hotel on the mainland, where it was warm and cosy, with a great range of malts in the bar.
Morning Mrs. O. No intention of going back, (man against the sea and all that crap). It has to clear up for twenty hours which is all we need to get to NYC.
Hello Ara. No deadlines, just a bit frustrated with progress, 10 days in New Jersey is all a body should be asked.
Weather is clearing (wishful thinking?) a bit, maybe we can make a quick dash for NYC over the weekend.
We allowed 80 days for the trip (and we have no deadlines at that point) so we have lots of flexibility, being retired has few, but significant, advantages.
Maybe we can make it back home by Christmas!!!