I wanted to be at the Battery at 6 pm (time of slack before flood at Hell Gate). That was 40 nm from Manasquan. Since I wasn't sure what our progress would be with adverse current getting there, we left the dock at 8:30 am, leaving plenty of time to spare. I also wanted to get going while there were no storms heading our way (there was plenty of precipitation showing on the weather radar). If we arrived early, we would anchor behind Liberty Island to wait.
By the time we were nearing Sandy Point, we could see some intensity in the weather radar heading our way. So, I decided to head for the anchorage we had used last year below the coast guard station. By the time we were anchoring at 13:25, a severe thunderstorm warning had been issued for our area. We had lunch at anchor as the storm approached, but the main part of it missed us to the south...not much wind and no lighting in the anchorage. There was time for a nap before we had to leave to make it to the Battery at 18:00.
Keeping an eye on the weather, we could see we would be in rain, but there did not appear to be a risk of severe thunderstorms. We weighed anchor at 15:30 and headed for the Battery. There was enough wind to unfurl our big jib (the "reacher") to help us with the adverse current. Eventually the wind died and we furled the jib, reaching the Battery at 18:00 as was our goal.
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| The Staten Island Ferry and Statue of Liberty are not well defined at about a mile away. |
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| This tug pushing a barge that passed close by was easy to see. |
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| Murky view of Manhattan through the rain as we came behind Governor's Island. |
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| Brooklyn Bridge |
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| We reached 11 kts SOG at Hell Gate and other places in the East R. |
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| We cut the corner at R "48" to avoid this guy entering the East R. at Throgs Neck. |
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