Archive For September 30, 2016
East River Sights and Sounds await! Bye Bye Nutty Irishmen! I’m looking forward to our last sailing day! There is a lot to see along the East River – there’s Execution Rocks, Rikers Island, and the Brooklyn Bridge for starters. All the talk last evening, though, revolved around Hell Gate. Hell Gate is the point…
The S.S. Minnow leaves for Port Jefferson Is there a shortcut? To get to Port Jefferson, we have to backtrack east a bit. Shelter Island is between the two forks of Long Island, so we have to get to the other side of the North Fork before we can continue on our westward journey toward…
There isn’t much in the way of things to do on Shelter Island, so we timed our arrival to minimize our down-time there. It’s now day three of my first sailing trip, and blue skies accompany us across a very calm Long Island Sound as the sun beats down on us relentlessly. The calm before…