At the last minute, call the Guard Coast to inform me of the entrance to Barnegat that I'm not so confident. Fortunately! Admission is officially maintained at 5 feet ... as we know that we hang the bottom in areas with a''guarantee''of 10 feet. In addition, arriving in the entry of an inlet with a falling tide, always provokes a phenomenon of waves with waves reaching 6 feet easily, hit bottom in these conditions would be irretrievably lost the boat. So we start at 04:00 am, and it makes its way through the tiny pass. Again, Yallah!, Hit bottom and putting the engine thoroughly managed to plow a path through the gelatinous mud. Fortunately,''The Unexpected''which takes at least we had opened the way! Still, we managed to rub against a post that marks the end of the channel and spend barely 3 feet of pillars that are barely visible in the dark.
output at sea is easy because we stall and is spun on a glassy sea to Sandy Hook, and if possible the Statue of Liberty is only 5 miles longer than the wetting Sandy Hook. The only problem is to get there before the turn of the tide that would make those 5 miles very, very long to do especially late in the day.
After a glorious day on a calm sea with too little wind, it nevertheless succeeds thanks to the engine, the game streams to reach the peak of Atlantic Highlands at the entrance of the huge bay of New York around 16:00 there is only ten miles. The current is still with us, and the wind begins to rise. It was therefore decided to aim at the statue. Just the decision, the boat slows down, we have the current against us! It points to the west central part of the bay and surprise, Yallah! starts to spin 7kN! But an hour later we arrived in the huge bridge Verrazanno and we meet the current of the Hudson River. Immediately, the wave form and with the wind blowing now 20kN, Yallah! riding the crest of waves through the cargo up and down the main channel. As we approach the mouth of the Hudson, it has eyes everywhere at once, cargo ships that seem so slow, but arriving at a surprising rate,''the''ferries that ply the harbor across the directions, tugs, emerging from nowhere, to go to meet a freighter, the fantastic scenery of the city, logs, trees, beams, planks of plywood coming down the Hudson floating on the water's edge, all among thirty freight ships and block our view of possible dangers. We eventually anchored behind the Statue of Liberty at 18:30, next to''''Safi arrived yesterday''and''The Unexpected who preceded us a few minutes.
After 90 nautical miles, a hot shower, a Scotch and sleep!
Photo 1: The sea of calm extraordinary
Photo 2: Arrive in New York
Photo 3: A ferry to New York
Photo 4: Our anchorage behind the Statue of Liberty
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