Thursday - June 30, 2011

Lat 41 30 15 Long 74 00 26, Fuel 148 gal; engine 902.39, Newburg


Left Newburg around 9:15, not without some difficulty leaving the dock. I got a little scratch on the gel coat which will have to be fixed on our return to South bay Cove. Wind blowing in as we tried to move out from the face dock. First time I have done that. Got out in the river and set the throttle at around 1650 and for some reason we were traveling at an average of 9.5 knots up the river. Didn’t make any sense since yesterday we were traveling at the same RPM’s but only going around 7 knots. The tidal current and the face wind must have had something to do with it since we arrived at our next destination – the Catskills marina at around 2. Who was there to greet us but Bade Boomer who had been taking their time going up the river. We are moving a little quicker since we have to be back in Toronto on the 16th for a wedding and are trying to get into Canadian waters in plenty of time.
The trip down the river is extremely beautiful, passing by the old homes of the Vanderbilts and the Roosevelts at Hyde Park. We also passed by the CIA, not the oone you normally think of but the Culinary Institute of America, America’s foremost chef school. They do serve the public on certain days of the week but reservations are required some time in advance. In any case there was no place to anchor and the climb up the hill would have killed us much less the climb back down. The river banks are quite steep and lots of big houses are perched on the top of the banks.