We have decided to stay in the Haverstraw NY area as there are a couple of hurricanes working their way up the East Coast and as they tend not to be perfectly predictable. Based on the current forecast, being 30 miles or so inland ought to be enough to knock this down to a good storm and not much else. Safe enough for the time being.
The main challenge is that to get to the Chesapeake you have to leave NY Harbour and head out into the Atlantic where you run for about 215KM along the coast @ our cruising speed of 15KM/H = 14.5hours of run time. No problem for the boat, but it would make for a long day with most of the driving being done by me.
So the combination of storms and good seamanship guidelines will call this phase of our our journey to an end. We will return in a month or so when the storms pass and we can muster a small crew to make the turn through the Atlantic and back into protected inland waters where we can more easily continue our journey south in the Chesapeake and likely to the Carolinas.
All in all we learned a great deal about ourselves, the boat and the lifestyle. We can share our respective thoughts on that front in another post.
Cheers!
Great story guys. Congrats on your safe journey. Wise move to lay up for a bit. You taking applications for crew for the next stage? :-)
ReplyDeleteJust keeps getting better and better. Here in Toronto with Miriam's sisters on the Niagara escarpment overlooking Toronto and Burlington on the Lake. All have seen your blog and so some new fans. See you in a bit.
ReplyDeleteJust to let you know I've been following the journey. Wishing you safe harbours until your return.
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