Saturday May 28: Cornwall-on-Hudson

We left our anchorage behind the Statue of Liberty about 11 am yesterday - waiting for the current to head up the Hudson River prior to our leaving.

The Hudson River is actually an estuary. The ocean tide actually runs in and out of the Hudson River causing currents that run north then turn and run south - twice a day.

We wanted the current going north!

First we needed to make our way through the New York city harbor with it's crazy number of vessels speeding across the harbor.

Staten Island Ferry

It was the roughest part of the travel today! We dodged racing sailboats (about 10 of them sailing in the harbor), numerous coast guard boats (with guns!), water taxis going every which way, and of course the uniquely colored Staten Island ferries.

Ellis Island

Ellis Island (actually very close to the Statue of Liberty) is a very fun looking building.

Steve's relatives (and mine too actually) came through Ellis Island when they immigrated to the US back in the early 1900's.

Pretty interesting history to the island. For more information, click here.



Once we passed under the George Washington Bridge, we knew we were home clear!

George Washington Bridge

The plan was to travel as long as we had the current with us - we were following the current going north and so were traveling at a steady 9.2+ mph. Made for a quick trip up the Hudson and helped make up for the later-than-usual start.

The views along the way are so varied - there is always something to look at.

I thought this obviously abandoned ?? was certainly reminiscent of earlier time on the Hudson.

As we approached the Tappen Zee Bridge it was difficult to determine exactly what was going on at the bridge. Finally, once we were close enough, it became clear that a new bridge was under construction. I don't know how long this has been going on but it is quite a project - years in the making for sure.

Once we were truly in the mountains, small towns would line a shoreline. Seemed every building was right on the water line.

Towns and trains. Lots of trains. Along both sides of the river. Seemingly constant! Both Amtrak (east shore) and freight trains (west shore). We found out last night the trains run all night and like to blow their whistles :-)

The route through the Catskill Mountains (a part of the Northern Appalachian Mountains) is incredible.

Picture left was taken shortly after a pouring rain - a slight bit of fog (?) leftover.

Finally after 60 miles and 7 hours we anchored just off shore from Cornwall-on-Hudson.

Not much here except a yacht club and a small town up the shoreline a bit.

And of course a train track ...





Steve caught a picture of one from the flybridge as it traveled along the shoreline near the small town.

Everything looks like a set from a model railroad train set. The vastness of the river is hard to really understand.

Today (it's now 11:39 - truly an enjoyable morning!!) we'll head out at 2:30 to catch the next northbound current. But we're only traveling 18 miles to a restaurant with a dock. Dock is free if you eat dinner with them - if we have to we have to, right? I've already checked out the menu - shrimp stuffed with crabmeat for me! Seafood platter for Steve :-)

It's about time he had a night off from cooking dinner ... and of course if he doesn't cook then I don't have any dishes to do :-)