Tuesday, July 13, 2010

7/12/2010 WESTPORT, CT TO LIBERTY LANDING MARINA IN NEW YORK HARBOR

QUEST IN WESTPORT

Back to NYC today! I made banana bread, Steven picked up those great breakfast sandwiches from the marina’s snack bar and Dan prepared the dingy for towing today. He and Richard Hoffstadt had put together the perfect tow rope and today was its first trial. Worked like a charm!!

MAKING USE OF THE GALLEY

STEVEN PICKING UP BREAKFAST

TOWING THE DINK

Once again we were gifted with cooler temperatures but visited by fog:

“The fog comes on little cat feet. It sets looking over harbor and city on silent haunches then moves on.” Carl Sanburg

Once the fog crept out we found glass smooth water littered with undulating jelly fish. It was beautiful but I was glad not to be swimming with in company.


Summertime on the sound means sailing school and you can see plenty of evidence of this afternoon’s activity in this panorama.

SCADS OF SAILS

The Steppingstone’s Light House stood watch as we entered the East River and neared the Trogs Neck Bridge. We watched airplanes land and take off from LaGuardia and helicopters come and go.

STEPPINGSTONE LIGHTHOUSE

TROGS NECK BRIDGE

WHITESTONE BRIDGE

TAKING OFF

LANDING

We caught sight of the United Nations flag, passed under the Manhattan Bridge and were finally greeted back to the harbor by the Statue of Liberty.

UNITED NATIONS FLAG

THE MUNICIPAL BUILDING
"GIVE ME YOUR TIRED, YOUR POOR"


Our resting spot for the night was Liberty Landing Marina on the New Jersey side just north of the The Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island and the Old Train Station. We stayed in for dinner and Steven’s friend, Peter , came for the night. Jan and Debi, another Fan Tan convert!!

BROOKLYN BRIDGE

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