 As we neared New York Harbor on our way in from Sandy Hook, marine traffic picked up considerably. There were tugs, ferries, tour boats and container ships, not to mention a lot of NYPD police boats.  | We are now safely back home in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. Except for the morning trip to the airport, our flight back home was pretty routine. Debbie's job wanted her the first week of June and her father is not well. Gerry has a business that needs him at the helm but he will head back to Connecticut later in June to sail Moxie (with Brian Flanagan) back to Nova Scotia . Although the weather was warm and fine the week we got home, the last few days have been unseasonably cold and windy-weather that we would have run into if we had continued the voyage. There's lots of work to do now, but we are looking forward to enjoying the bays, lakes and coves with friends and family this summer. |
We got pretty close to the old girl. Since 911, there are security markers around the island boats are required to honor, as well as the ever present harbor patrol watching diligently.
The new Trade and Convention Tower in downtown Manhattan. We putted around New York Harbor waiting for the tide to be right for our voyage up the East River.
Manhattan from New York Harbor. We are just beginning to head for the East River, which is really a passage between New York Harbor and Long Island Sound. About this time we got a VHF radio call from the US Coast Guard, checking us out.
Further up the East River looking back at the Brooklyn Bridge. We have just passed under the Manhattan Bridge. All these bridges connect Manhattan with Brooklyn, on Long Island.
Architectural detail on the Manhattan Bridge. There is an abundance of artistic detailing on buildings and infrastructure throughout New York, which contributes to making it such an interesting and enticing city.
I'm guessing the stacks are part of a mid town generating station. A 60' UK flagged "Gun Boat" Sailing Cat, powers up the East River.
 Sightlines are preserved here as we pass by a green area along the river, across from Roosevelt Island. Almost at Hell Gate. |  We got to the Worlds Fair Marina on Flushing Bay, in the Queens district of New York City on Long Island. Though it wasn't the greatest Marina we had been to, it was close to the price was right and it was close to the Subway and 30 minutes into Time Square. |
One of two memorial sites dedicated to the victims of the 911 attack.
The new "One World Trade Center", is the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere and the 4th tallest in the world. It's not easy to get a good picture of this, Debbie took 10 or so pictures, this ones the best. Not to bad...
Steve Flanders Square near New York City Hall.
The next day we took the train into Manhattan and visited the Museum of Modern Art. You would need week or so to really see everything there, or at least 2 or 3 days to really see what interests you. There are many displays, from a Yoko Ono to Impressionists to Big City Architecture.
Debbie enjoyed MoMa a lot.
The Horse and Buggy tours around Central Park. There were also bicycle rickshaws doing the same thing. We elected to walk the lower section of the park.
Many entertaining Busker acts in Central Park, from single musicians to seemingly professional acrobatic troops putting on a show.
The Marina we stayed at in Queens was next door to Laquardia Airport. There were planes taking off or landing every minute or two. Queens is now an area where lots of immigrants live, often two families to a house or apartment. It was interesting riding the train into Manhattan.
An old lighthouse in the lower part of Long Island Sound, not far from City Island and New Rochelle.
This cottage is what I would call a mansion. Pretty sure it was on or close to City Island, NY. (Mainland)
The US Coast Guard Station and Lighthouse on Eaton Neck Point, Long Island, NY. As we were in no big rush to get to Bridgeport CT in one day, we anchored behind the Coast Guard Station in a protected inlet.
Our final destination (for now) was Captains Cove Marina in Black Rock Harbor, Bridgeport CT. We arrived on Friday May 22, the beginning of the Memorial Day Holiday weekend. Flights were going to be expensive that weekend so we elected to stay there till Tuesday, May 26.
This is Sherri, a friend of Brian and Tara Flanagan on SV Scout. Sheri couldn't do enough for us, driving us around Bridgeport to do a bit of shopping and showing us the sights. Thanks Sheri.
Early Tuesday Morning, at the Island Dock where we are leaving our boat Moxie. The next 2 hours were the most stressful of our trip, as the taxi that was to pick us up to take us to the airport shuttle, couldn't get to the Marina. The owner of the Marina came through and somehow got us to the shuttle just in time, only to be slowed to a crawl by heavy traffic southbound on Interstate Highway 95. Somehow we got to Laguardia Airport in enough time to catch our flight back to Toronto and on to Halifax, NS.
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