We woke up to a beautiful morning.  Low wind and calm river.  A perfect day to leave a crowded marina.  Wayne backed us out off our dock like a pro.   Time to go north!  We really enjoyed our stay at Half Moon Bay.  Meeting more Loopers and hearing their stories.

Flag Day!!  Really enjoyed seeing the USA Flag flying proudly on several of the bridges this morning.

 

We had no idea that the Hudson River ran so deep!!  My chart indicated.  Wow

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A handful of barges this today …  I like the colorful barges and tugs.  Really offsets the rust.

 

Drama on the Hudson!!  We saw this little sail boat not change course as this large barge came into view.  The barge did NOT change course.  Drama!!  We had moved over to the side of the channel to be sure this behemoth wouldn’t rock our boat too much.  The Sail Boat didn’t alter course.  OMG!!  Does the Barge even see the sail boat?

The sail boat must either not be intimated by size or they knew from local knowledge that the barge would follow the channel and turn slightly enough to miss the sail boat.  From our point of view, there was going to be match sticks that we would have to sail through.  It looked very close!!

 

I saw this castle-like building up on the mountain side.  It is a hotel not far from West Point.

We are going to be driving by West Point?  It looks so institutional.  To me, the buildings look either like a prison or monastery.  A university?  Is this what some of my tax dollars are paying for?  Very impressive, to be sure.  Old buildings.  Formal.  Straight.  Salute is in order when we passed by, right?

 

A rail road track runs right along the river at this point.  This beautiful house sits right behind the tracks.  Again, from our vantage point, it looks like the RR track is their front sidewalk!  We have seen trains.  So, we imagine this house feels the trains when they zoom by!

Debris!!  In the Hudson River.  The lady at the marina said that normally the spring runoff would have swept down river all the kinds of debris we saw.  They didn’t have the normal runoff so the debris is slowing making its way along the waterway.

 

We saw lumber.  2X4’s and 2X6 or 2X12’s.  We don’t know where they would be coming from.  Wayne postulated that the barges or tug boats might have lumber on them for support supplies.  OR a house fell apart and is slowly making its way downriver one chunk at a time.

 

Speaking of chunks!!  A tree truck or firewood!!  Serious damage for someone hitting all this debris.

 

We saw several of these little houses.  They are light houses and water way markers.  I think they are the cutest light markers we have seen.  Large enough someone could actually live there.

 

I was fascinated by this solution.  Using concrete impeded pillars to apparently holdup the side of the mountain.  Really?  Looks like the concrete was poured into the shape and melted into the mountain side.  Wonder if that really works?

 

Land marks.  The chart plotter indicated “stacks”.   Here they are!!  2 stacks.  I just love the  visual water landmarks.  When you don’t have street names, turn at the 2 stacks seems appropriate.

 

Flat water.  Perfectly calm waters.  I guess waiting for the weather to pass was the right thing to do!  The results were a perfect day!

 

Just after noon we arrived at our destination.  Rondout Yacht Basin in Kingston, NY.  They have fuel and a pump out.  And a berth for the night.  3 things we needed.  Lots of activity around the marina since it was a Sunday.  It quieted down at sunset as the day boaters went home.