Sunshine !

Woke up to sunshine and much lower humidity. Opened up a couple cabinets that had condensation due to them being directly under the cold deck. Wiped off surface moisture and removed some contents and left doors open to thoroughly dry. Finished a few more small projects. Still windy, but nice and warm in the cockpit, behind the dodger, Bimini connector and new side panels I made before we left.

In the afternoon we decide to get off the boat and walk into Town, Haverstraw. This is a great little cove, but there are no docks for dinghy use. We find one place were we can get ashore without getting wet. Interesting walking through downtown Haverstraw, a very Hispanic population. Most store fronts have signs mostly in Spanish. There was at least one barber shop on every block and they were all busy.

Since most males around here seem to have short cropped hair, they must get their hair cut frequently. They would go broke with me, I get it cut short and then let it grow long before it gets cut again. We pass a bunch of different ethnic Hispanic restaurants. Had we known, we would of planned dinner in town. We do stop at one shop featuring empanadas and get a couple to go, which we immediately eat as we are walking down the street. We stop at a couple small markets to look for plantain chips, (like potato chips) one of my favorite snacks. Not exactly a hot item in Vermont. When we left Miami for the Bahamas last time I had quite a stash in the aft cabin to last me three months, to my wife’s amusement. We head back towards the dinghy after we walk through a gorgeous town park on the Hudson with pools, water slides, covered picnic areas and play areas for kids.

Our calm cove

Plans are to get up early and head back down the Hudson to Atlantic Highlands to plan on a Tuesday over night sail to Cape May. I imagine there will be a lot of boats who have been waiting out the poor weather to move south and will do so before the window closes.