Port Washington

Saturday July 6

It seems we are not going to get any news about the Erie canal situation until Monday (and we may not get any then!). What to do? We could sit where we were at Sandy Hook, we could start up the Hudson and hope for the best or we could head thru the city to Port Washington in Long Island Sound. At PW we could take a ball, restock the larder, and/or take the train into Manhattan. The weather was not a factor, it looked like a really pleasant day.

New World Trace Center on the left

We decided PW. But there was no need to leave until Midday because of the tides, so we took it easy for the morning. Just as we were thinking about leaving we had visitors from a boat called "Blue Dog". They had noticed Tide Hiker in a bunch of places and thought we sounded "well mannered" on the radio and decided to pay us a call. It was fun and they stayed for a couple of hours.





So we pulled up anchor a bit late, but in a good cause. We could not approach the East River till about 4:30PM and we were "right in the action" by 3 PM. The Statue reopened this weekend after

being closed since Sandy, and was very crowded. There was lots of traffic on the water.

On the way up the harbor I called Dick Parsanko who I knew to be vacationing in NYC this weekend, before taking a cruise to Bermuda. Dick told me that they had decided to take a Circle Line cruise at 4 PM. So we headed up the Hudson to intercept him. As it turned out, we saw them on three separate occaisons on the water. Amazing.

We were on the East River at 4:30PM and enjoyed a fast ride into the Long Island Sound, past our old home on Roservelt Island. Tide Hiker was secured to a ball in PW by 6:30 PM.

There is Dick in the blue shirt with his hands in the air

Cruise ship leaving

I once went to work on that thing