Single handed on the Hudson to Manhatten

Friday October 4

I got up early around seven will have to prepare the boat for our first departure. Single-handed got the store away. All the other things required to start sailing.  I tried to call several Marinas and none of them had fuel or handle a sailboat or responded. I tried motoring into Terry Marc Marina, and there’s nobody there. Nobody answered the phone. Nobody answered the radio, so I left there and decided to head to Haverstraw Bay Marina got there at just before noon - fueled up and got a pump out.  All before the lineman’s lunch.

I started to head south to Statue of Liberty 36 miles.

I wore my life jacket all the way

I got up very early the next morning and departed the Manhattan skyline sailing the first segment in a broad reach. 

Eventually used the engine and motor sailed until the winds died. 

Anchored behind the Statue of Liberty using a recovery line with a float on the anchor as Mark suggested.

I was able to fly the drone

 

Rolly night 

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Hudson

We left Castleton to East of Green Flats and Upper Flats 

Monday Sept 30

We helped a Tartan 35 put up her mast before departing south on the Hudson.  

Brian twice went way off channel almost grounding us.  He bllamed it on autopilot 

Doing good time, we decided to anchor at East of Green Flats and Upper Flats.  

It was on the east side of the river. I had considered Espus Creek but I could not find tide information on Aqua-map so the shallowness concerned me

We, we ran aground in a very mushy bottom and had to wait to the tide to turn before we could get out.  We had a steak dinner and at 21h30, about two hours after low tide, Bellum spun and we easily pulled her out with the windlass. 

Spent an hour trying to anchor is a very soft Bottom in almost 20

Feet of water

Tues Oct 1

We left the anchorage late after finishing some more rigging tasks 

Lots of green stuff.  We motored mostly but we did sailed a bit

Anchor at Beacon and windlass was stripped. Would not pull up 

To Nyack

Put motor on dinghy. Tested motor. 

Walked through Beacon 

Coffee

I ordered new drum to fix the Lewmar windlass from Defender

Brian won’t listen or take advise on how to lift the dinghy.  I told him I would pull up anchor by hand but he tried to do it.  Did not listen to instructions 

I did haul the anchor up by hand and discovered that he was not at the helm when the anchor was up. He was in the cabin.  When I called him he acted like “what do you want”?  Anchor was up and he was not at the helm. Now Brian is a saboteur?

Thursday October 3 Brian off at the  Nyack.  I found a building where I can plug in charge at the laptop and then found free Wifi at an MNT bank where I updated the Maximizer and my iPad iPhone walk back to the boat and prepared for my walk to Congress to get the new drum for the windlass.  It was an8 mile 8 1/2 mile walk my toe is hurting and decided to take the bus back and ended up in the Palisades shopping mall - a very boring mall, humongously oversize.

I took another bus back to the boat and install the winless drum. It’s sort of work, not perfectly, but I was able to get to work good enough to pull anchor and drop anchor. 

Met Lise for supper at Hudson on the restaurant. She had picked up at 3 L of diesel for me in the water bottle that help me get to the next point to get fuel.

We had a nice supper and we walked back to the boat together. I read a bit, snack on some peanuts and rewarded myself with a shot of scotch and then went to bed.