Harverstraw

Verrazano-Narrows Bridge before sunrise

We have a nice sunrise and very little commercial traffic leaving or entering New York Harbor.

Sunrise and Linda

With fast moving container ships and tankers you have to look all around. They can sneak up behind you if you don't turn around occasionally. Fortunately with AIS on our radio it is pretty easy keeping track of all commercial traffic. I don't even bother turning on the radar to track ships.

Lower Manhattan

 

Manhattan Pyramid

Lower Manhattan waters are rather choppy due to all the water taxis running around. Once we reach mid-town it starts to calm down. Our passage up the Hudson is rather slow, because the current is ebbing against us for most of the day. None the less it is a nice warm enjoyable sunny day. 

As soon as we reach the George Washington bridge Linda calls BoatUS our insurance company. We are now officially on “fresh” water and our insurance rates go down now that we are off the US Atlantic coast.

We drop anchor at Harverstraw Bay where we anchored last September on our way south.