One starts with the push of the tide and we do not force, 7.0 kn. We are rapidly reaching behind Pollepel Island with its famous castle ruins Bannerman. (Ruined, because in reality it was a deposit of dynamite and it exploded, there is a forty year.) But the site is impressive and the building and outbuildings with their many turrets really gives the Print it's a castle, so that even knowing its history, one is almost convinced that it is. But it is so early that the unexpected continues its road 5 miles away, to a new berth that we do not know. So we decide to wait until he calls us by radio to confirm the installation of docks Yes! A restaurant offers its clientele 55 dock spaces, free of charge! An hour later we set sail, but the current began to turn. We no longer than 4.8 kn, fortunately we are near the anchorage area along Western Hudson, before the restaurant''Torches'' and the Town of Newburgh. City who has known better days, judging from the size of some homes and buildings, including the YMCA, which dates from 1889 and is downright huge. Like many small American cities, she has known a boom with the construction of the railway and one or two plants. Today the city is renovated, much green space to replace the warehouses, but the place is dead, the shops are all on the decline. People in the street totally air 'biz''! The liquor store''''looks like a bank counter with bottles caged behind a counter ... like the SAQ in the 60s! Next door,''offers''three small grocery stores, Indian, Caribbean and a WASP (White Anglo Saxon Protestant) but all three offer, next to nothing, some caning, refrigerators full of soda and lots and lots of scratch !
Fortunately a very nice library awaits us where we can read the latest news and making the Internet.
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West Point: The famous "castle" Bannerman
Photo 3: Platforms Newburgh Free
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