Author: Low Wattage

Out of our little creek at 8 and upriver towards Troy, quite a stretch from here.

Not much in the way of photographic materials today, colder and windy with showers.

So here are a couple left over from yesterday, saw this sailing vessel at Croton-on-Hudson where the Pete Seeger concert was going on, it may be his ship, anyway the name was Mystic Whaler, and obviously on a day trip with sightseers.

Sublime, and then of course the ridiculous, what do you suppose it could be? The Church of the Eternal Pineapple?

Continue reading “Sauguties to Albany, Tuesday June 18.”

Early start to catch the tide at the Battery, then the tide was late, only got rolling about 10 am.

Started at Ground Zero

Continue reading “Sunday 16 – NYC to Newburg”

Finally got a good day for outside, so made a run from  Tom’s River to Manasquan and emerged into the Atlantic at 11:00 am.

 Forecast was not great, but this was the best day for the next five.

 Uneventful trip up to NYC, low swell and little wind.  We were round Sandy Hook by 3 and under the narrows bridge by 4.

 Verrazano Narrows Bridge

Continue reading “Saturday June 15 – into Manhatten”

Dragged anchor in the night, found myself up against a megayacht at zero dark thirty in something North of a gale.

 The captain came up and graciously moved his gin palace while I fended off, both in our PJ’s.  Fifty degrees and soaking wet, I think these are called retirement benefits.

 We had to move and re-anchor as we were too close into the shore, so I spent the next few hours on “Anchor Watch “ to make sure we were OK.  I finally turned in at daybreak (about five thirty), by then the wind was dropping.

 Surprisingly, I did not take the camera on this adventure so the written transcript will have to suffice.

The rest of the day was a non-event, except for the strange repetitive noise heard emerging from the bilge, about noon I finally tracked it down to a malfunctioning bilge pump.  I replaced it with one of the spares onboard and all was quiet by one pm.

All these spare parts were somewhat mocked by person who shall be nameless (why do you need five toolboxes?) but when needs must…….

 Fast asleep by 8:30 pm.  More tomorrow.

“Violent thunderstorms with damaging winds and hail.”  Nice forecast to start the day.    Well we said we did not have a schedule.

 Storm passed through around noon, this was our neighbor the steel trawler, he’s only about two hundred feet away.

Continue reading “Tom’s River – Thursday June 13”

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.

Continue reading “Tom’s River -Wednesday June 12”

Sunday June 9

Still inside today but good progress, made it from Atlantic City to Tom’s River (north end of Barnegat Bay)  Probably all we could have done offshore and a lot easier on the boat, probably about 70 miles (as the crow might do it) more for us given all the twists and turns of the ICW.

 The boat is now home so to speak, Marine Traders were sold out of Bay Head New Jersey, just up the river from here.

 Not many pictures today, forgot to take the camera up top this morning, so just these two of Tom’s River (officially it does not rate an apostrophe but it should).

A few classic sailboats

Continue reading “Tom’s River”

Catching up here, weather uniformly awful last week. This was news on Saturday June 8.

Did not go outside yesterday (Friday), tropical storm Andrea got in the way. We were holed up in Pecks Creek about halfway between Cape May and Atlantic City.  Safe but nothing much to see from there.
Continue reading “Atlantic City”