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| Bon Voyage Breakfast with the Leeds |
Friday September 3rd, Our "plan" had been to join the Harlem for the Labor Day Weekend Rendezvous in Oyster bay and then take off from there for our journey south. For the past two months the weather had been incredibly hot, humid, dry and uneventful and we expected more of the same. However, mother nature decided it was time to stir things up a bit and indeed she gave it a good effort. Hurricane Danielle had just past by up the coast, although she did fizzle out to sea, the surf in the ocean had been stirred. Not far behind her heels was Hurricane Earl. The Rendezvous had been cancelled and plans had quickly changed. We secured extra lines on the Summer Wind because it looked like Earl could possibly be hitting the Carolinas and then coming directly north. Earl thank goodness, downsized then steered away and brought only wind and wave. The Summer Wind had been fine and the window of opportunity for travelling was Sunday morning.
After lots of planning we shoved off from City Island on Sunday, September. 5, 2010 and had a enjoyable first day to Atlantic Highlands, NJ. It was breezy but sunny and beautiful in the morning, so we decided to drop the lines and head down the East River.
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| Going down the East River |
Our timing was perfect because we were always cruising about 9 knots and when we came upon Hellsgate our speed hit 11knots, wow we were zooming! Upon entering the Upper New York harbor from the north, the winds could really be felt and the waves gave us a rocky ride over to the Atlantic Highlands. We filled up the fuel tanks ($2.74/gal) and dropped the anchor for the night.Our friends Tim and Joanne aboard Horizon IV pulled into the anchorage soon after and we crashed for the night.
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