On the way through the East River towards Manhattan is a
stretch knows as Hell Gate. It was
originally named hellegat which is Dutch for “bright passage”. However, currents run so strongly here that
its now called Hell Gate. So we left at
first light, (about 6:30am) to ensure that we’d get through with a fair
tide. And with following winds,
everything worked out well. At the end
of Hell Gate, Amazing Grace caught us up and proceeded to Atlantic Highlands to
wait for the forecast Northerly winds, as we had discussed the previous
night. We continued a mile up the Hudson
river and picked up a mooring at Pier25 Marina, 40° 43.629N, 074° 00.839W, right on West
Street in downtown NY city.
After a walk along West Avenue to Battery Park we returned
to Quinita and prepared some appetizers for our guests, Marcel and Angela, who
were shortly to arrive via the launch service.
We met Marcel in Amsterdam back in 1990 or thereabouts and hadn’t seen
him for maybe 15 years. And this was the
first time we had met his lovely wife Angela.
Marcel works for Spotify and obtained some passes for us to visit his
high rise office. Spotify have the top
15 or so floors of the building and Marcel took us to the 72nd floor. On a beautiful sunny day the views were
spectacular.
They then took us to Le
District, where we had dinner.
Le District is a very, very upmarket version of the eating places often
found in shopping malls, serving gourmet French food, wine, beer, etc. Very nice!
Back on the boat, we checked the forecast for tomorrow’s
trip to Atlantic Highlands, (due south of us).
The forecast was for S 10-15 gusting to 30 in the afternoon. So an early start would be required.
Ships Log: 6,792.0, Trip, 15.7, Trip Total: 115.8
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