City Island 40:51N 73:48W
Millybrown
Mark Hillmann
Wed 29 Oct 2008 14:18
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We, (Milly and I) came back through the
city yesterday. The sort of proper, bright and sunny day that
the boys missed in New York.
I am paying for it today, on a mooring
near City Island, north of New York, with rain and 20-30 knot winds all
day. But at least I can sort more things, the new laptop will not connect
to the phone, so I am on the old Windows 98 backup machine. If these
photos are no good tell me and I will redo them at the next wi-fi
place.
Downtown New York, Lower Manhattan, is as
you imagine it, glass and steel, nothing old or tatty. The heliport
by the river had 6 machines powered up with rotors spinning, others in and
out like noisy dragonflies. The ferries and water taxis seemed much
less threatening in daylight.
From the East River side, the Empire State
Building is not part of downtown Manhattan. The blocks in front of
it are much more like the East London ones we demolish, with pick-up trucks
on top to test Toyota robustness.
Across the river from East Side in New York
state, the area of seemed derelict, old jetties and buildings, perhaps just
waiting for redevelopment. Quite a contrast.
At the north end, Upper East Side, you are back to
posh office blocks.
Ten miles away, I am on a mooring off the City Island Yacht Club. I
could not get ashore all day: Even in the lulls twenty knots is too much
wind to row ashore without good shelter. There was shelter last night
with the wind off the island, but it has come round to give a mile for the
seas to build up now.
The forecast is better for
tomorrow and the wind direction now is right to blow me back to
Cape Cod. I will wait for a bit less wind and
some daylight.
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