The Hudson River

The northern part of the Hudson River is just beautiful. It's hard to believe that NY city is coming up soon.

We are official members of the "I've Been Aground in the Hudson River" club. We were motoring south when Lou got a little confused on the markings. Unfortunately he picked the "short cut" and it was a BIG mistake. The tide was changing, we were in a muck field, and there was no help in sight. I was convinced that we were hard aground, but Optimistic Otto (the captain) kept trying different things and we got back into the channel. It probably took 10 minutes but it felt like 4 hours!!!

We continued south to the Poughkeepsie Yacht Club where we snagged a mooring. In the morning we woke up in our own world.......fog so thick that we couldn't see the boat on the next mooring. It was like being wrapped in a cocoon.

We have met the nicest people on this journey. The folks at Hop-O-Nose went out of their way to help us recommission the boat, the couple from Sparta unselfishly shared their experiences with us, and the manager at the Julius Petersen Boat Works was the nicest guy in the world. The only "gripe" I have is that Jim McConnell is not aboard to refresh our 11th grade history on the Revolutionary War.