We are terrible bloggers. We are clearly behind in our posting. Between getting accustomed to Haven, some boat work, passage planning, and enjoying where we land, we have not posted as often as we’d like. Since this is a blog for us and you, we want to use this as a journal of where we’ve been and what we’ve done. We are finding it is very easy to forget what we did and where we were just two anchorages ago. So, we will try to stick to a realistic posting schedule. How about Sunday and Wednesday? (Except for this one time.)
When we last posted we were in Sandy Hook. We stayed for about 2 weeks – Debbie went to see her dad, and we enjoyed a visit from good friends (Dave from Chicago and Anthony and Kurt from NY!). Our next goal was to go through Long Island Sound up to Jamestown, Rhode Island, to rendezvous with Debbie’s brother Michael and our sister-in-law, Lori. This broke our rule of having a set schedule. But the weather looked good.
The trick was getting through the East River when both the tide and current were heading in the right direction. The passage is called Hell’s Gate for a reason. We left Sandy Hook and positioned ourselves overnight anchored off Ellis Island with a million-dollar view of Manhattan. Ellis is close to the mouth of the mouth of the river, which set us up to be ready for a very early morning and incredibly beautiful motor through the river and right through the south end of Manhattan. The current was a real thing. We were running with it and at one point we were cruising at 18 kts SOG (speed over ground). That’s very fast for Haven, whose average speed is 7 kts.
Set A Course 