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Aug 9 – Newburgh, NY

We left Newburgh at 7:00am this morning & are traveling about 55 miles north to a marina at Coxsackie, NY, which is about 20 miles south of Albany. It will take us between 9-10 hours to make this trip.

The weather today is much improved. Bright sunny skies & virtually no wind.

The water is much calmer today so the boat is running smoothly but we are still dealing with tidal influence. Hard to believe that the tides could be as powerful as they are this far inland but the falling tide combined with the river current has dropped our speed to just over 5 knots. That should change in a couple of hours when the tide starts to rise again.

We just met a tall ship on the river headed south. Pretty impressive site even when the sails are not up. Unfortunately we could not read the name on the transom.

Catch up to you later. Cheers!

Today we travelled from New York City to Newburgh, NY, which is about 50 miles north.

The sky was heavily overcast when we left the marina but fortunately the rain held off all day.

The was not much “traffic” on the river – mainly fast passenger ferries going back & forth from New Jersey to New York. Once those thinned out I convinced Catherine to take a turn at the helm.

She got the hang of it pretty quickly & before I knew it I had been demoted to deckhand – but that’s just fine with me!

Once we got about 15 miles north of NYC the landscape began to change quickly. The shoreline went from being heavily built up on a gentle slope to very steep cliffs in Palisades Park.

We passed under two new bridges that were under construction at Tappan Zee.

It was interesting to see them from a different perspective. One of the spans was completed & the other still had a little way to go before it could handle any traffic.

As we travelled further north the river began to get narrower but still remained deep – ranging from 25 feet to well over 100 feet in many places.

We went past the West Point military academy about an hour south of our destination for the day. It was a very impressive place.

The sky cleared up just as we arrived in Newburgh. A great end to a great day on the water.

Cheers!