Hi Again Ed,
Pat and I will also be at SSCA. Pat will be at the registration desk and
I'll be running the book swap table and giving demos. Are you going to
make the Friday night cocktail party at Camp Letts?
Paul Esterle
Freelance Boating Writer
Columbia 10.7, 26 & Matilda 20
North East, MD.
“Capt’n Pauley’s Boat Repairs & Upgrades”
book at www.captnpauley.com
home.comcast.net/~pesterle/
Ed Kelly wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> We have Angel Louise floating this early morning on still waters
> at Atlantic Highlands, NJ.
>
> I wanted to say thanks again to liveaboard list member and friend
> Steve Weinstein for a great evening w/ drinks and dinner Wednesday
> night in his home port of Oyster Bay, NY. Sue and I both enjoyed
> the great evening & friendship very much. We met him after
> anchoring in O.B. just below the site of the former summer
> White House of President Teddy Roosevelt.
>
> Early Thursday we raised anchor at 4 am, and using radar
> and our electronic track on the chart plotter - we made it out
> of Oyster Bay onto the larger waters of Long Island Sound in
> darkness by 5 am. It was a rare beauty to see the NYC skyline
> twinkling in the distance on this 7th Anniversary of 911 in the
> pre-dawn darkness.
>
> We had a nice motor sail up LI Sound toward NYC, and hit the East River
> with the current in our favor, operating on only the starboard engine
> (due to the port engine alternator going haywire with wild
> unregulated voltages on the way up Long Island Sound the prior day).
> We made it through HellGate on the East River with about 8.7
> knots showing on the GPS and were by the UN around 9:00 am.
>
> We cruised through around Manhattan Island during the 9.11 memorial
> ceremonies, and went up the Hudson to the 79th St Boat Basin.
> Unfortunately it was full up so just before noon, abeam Grants
> Tomb, we cruised south out of NYC and its hectic harbor, going
> under the Verizano Narrows Bridge and across the bay to behind
> Sandy Hook and truly beautiful Northern New Jersey. We love
> Atlantic Highlands mooring field and free anchorage behind their
> seawall. (I read there is a clothing optional beach on the outside
> of nearby Sandy Hook, but I have not been there.)
> With the extra 3+ hour excursion up the Hudson River to the
> Upper West Side of NYC, we still got to our final destination
> by 4:30 pm Thursday.... 12.5 hours cruising and motor sailing
> on only the starboard engine.
>
> We are staying at Atlantic Highlands a couple days working on Angel
> Louise and also waiting for some favorable winds going down NJ's
> Atlantic Coast. Next leg is to Cape May (with a possible stop in Atlantic
> City). Our goal is to reach Annapolis (7 Seas Cruising Assn has a
> cruising seminar ($30 fee) on Sept 20th in Edgewater.
>
> Sue and I wish everyone a great day.
>
> Ed
>
> Ed Kelly (& Sue Kelly)
> USSV Angel Louise - a Catalac catamaran- moored at Atlantic Highlands
> for repairs
> Our Skype Phone (202) 657-6357
> Email: EdKelly ("at" symbol) netins.net
>
>
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