Up the East River to Port Washington, Long Island - 13th July 2011
Nimue
Wed 13 Jul 2011 16:18
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We both had great FUN in Manhattan, but it was time to move on to our
next anchorage in Port Washington, Long Island! Even as we left the 79th St.
anchorage and made way out of the Hudson River, around The Battery and into the
East River, we could hardly take our eyes off the impressive Manhattan skyline
and it looks even better from the water!
  Leaving the 79th St.
anchorage
Just love the skyline!
  On our way down the Hudson River we caught a
glimpse of the new buildings on the World Trade Centre site and one of the many
ferry docks
  Coming up to The Battery, the US Coast Guard keeps
sharp look-out (note the machine gun!) and one of the many helicopters we saw
flying above us.
Our 25 nm trip round to Port Washington on Long Island required careful
planning so we didn’t get caught in strong adverse tides. We carefully planned
our arrival at The Battery to coincide with slack water, which would give us a
favourable current all the way up up the East River and into Long Island
Sound.
Everything went according to plan and after negotiating the mighty
Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges, we started to gather up speed around the United
Nations building, past Riker Island and by the time we reached Hells Gate
Bridge, we were speeding over the ground at about 9.2 knots! We were finally spat out at Throgs Neck bridge into Long Island Sound and
made our way towards Port Washington.
![256px-Wpdms_terra_east_river[1]](/ul/blog/mailasail.com/nimue@mailasail.com/161/jpgLFnRaBKv4g.jpg "256px-Wpdms_terra_east_river[1]") ![map-of-long-island[2]](/ul/blog/mailasail.com/nimue@mailasail.com/161/jpgZO1WuCidhk.jpg "map-of-long-island[2]") On the satellite photo,the East
River is shown in red, the Hudson to the left and The
Battery is on the point between the two,
right on the tip on
Manhattan.
Long Island is the island
located in the southeast part of New York state, just east of
Manhattan.
 The famous Brooklyn
Bridge
  The Manhattan
Bridge
  This iconic sign located on Long Island
on our way down the East River
  The United Nations Building under
restoration and Nimue heading towards another bridge on Riker
Island
 As we passed La Guardia airport, as a
plane was about to land
  A view of the Empire State Building as
we passed through Throgs Neck Bridge and
we left the huge port hand marker to
starboard as we made to way to Port Washington
We successfully tied up to one of the ‘free’ mooring balls
(the American’s call them balls on buoys!) in Port Washington harbour and within
minutes we heard a knock on the boat. It was Kevin from Amacora
who we had previously met in Deltaville. His wife,
Jean, had flown back to the UK for a few weeks, so he was happy to see some
friendly faces and of course we made sure he was well nourished! A couple
of days later we were re-joined by Scott Free, who had sailed up from Washington
DC.
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