Waterford to Nyack, Huson River

We left Waterford on Tuesday afternoon after Mark spent a day helping a cruising friend to upgrade his boat's electrical system. After locking through the Troy Federal Lock I put all our fenders away, ten of them in various sizes, from now on we'll have a very few locks, and we'll be anchoring out majority of the time. We spent Tuesday night at Albany, walked around the city and soon we retreated back to the quiet of our boat. We also kept our eyes on TS Hanna and decided that we will stay as far north of NY harbor as possible.

Connecting the rigging, stepped up mast at Saugerties


So we arrived at Saugerties on Wednesday, a well protected anchorage to hide out from Hanna. We stepped our mast, yeah, no more low bridges to go through, we launched the dinghy, went for a ride and went into town. It's a half-mile hike up hill from the anchorage; we needed the exercise and a treat of Stewart's Maple Walnut ice cream. Saturday morning we woke up to a grey cloudy sky. The rain started around 3:00 PM, steady until after midnight. Other than the rain we had very light wind in the anchorage, our wind meter had an average speed of 7 mph. So all is good.

Rainning day from TS Hanna, lighthouse at Saugerties


What a beautiful Sunday morning. We left Saugerties around 7:00 AM came out of the creek on to the Hudson River. Many boats are doing the same, it's a beautiful day to be traveling on the Hudson River, the sky is clear blue, cool and little breezy. We traveled 73 miles today, anchored by the Nyack mooring field at 4:30 PM. Tonight, we are watching the offshore weather forecast for New Jersey coast, hoping we'll have an opportunity to do the run to Cape May tomorrow.


Beautiful day on the Hudson River



West Point, and a go fast boat that waked everyone