Sunday
this was a very relaxing day with a late start. Rachel drove up from Philly to join us for the day so after laundry we went out for a sail south to see the Statue of Liberty again. On the way back we had the spinnaker flying all the way to the marina. The harbor tour boats kept making a line for us. It was getting quite annoying as we started by making evasive actions. The we realized that we were the photo opportunity for the passengers on the tours.
Late in the day was a little sad as the southwest crew departed - Dave flew back to London, Lande got the Acela back to Boston and Rachel drove home. But the good news was that the northeast crew - Bob - arrived. It is good to see him and I am sure we will have a great week together.
There was one ,moment of excitement when we realized that we were going backwards at 1 kt despite making 4 kts over water. It is peculiar to look on the chart plotter and see your heading and coirse overground being 180 degrees separated.
This morning we need to fill water tanks having almost used our 90gallons on board. As you can tell we weren't rationing water given the frequent opportunities to fill up.
Current in Hell's gate turns at 1:59pm in our favor so we expect to disembark at about 10am and will leisurely sail down to see the statue one more time, turn around the southern tip of Manhattan and enter the east river. We may try to push through a little early when the current has subsided sufficiently and will. Try to make good progress, and catch some fish, in Long Island Sound.
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