Cape May to New York

Hi everyone,

We made it to New York, New York!  It was a 24 hour motor over glassed-out sea and for many hours in dense fog.  The engine purred along happily throughout.

Statue of Liberty ahoy!

Here are the usual plots...

Track

Arrival

Graphs

The eagle-eyed amongst you will notice the strangely linear nature of much of the track.  That's 'cos I accidentally deleted it and recreated it from the route.

Cape May is a good bolt-hole but dinghy docks are far away from the anchorage.  The weather was cold & windy for our first two days there, then improved on the third.  The weather outlook wasn't good for a sailing breeze northward so we 'bit the bullet' and motored.  So did at least 6 other yachts.

Departure from Cape May at 0730 was straight-forward with the light winds and calm seas.  We even motor-sailed for an hour before the wind died.

Entering the Channel

Inbound Coast Guard cutter

Happy to be on our way

Around noon the fog descended.  It stayed with us until mid-evening.  We had reasonable visibility all night with the cloud gradually breaking up as we moved north.

Through the fog

Entry into New York harbour is via wide deep channels with room for small craft beside them.  Once in the harbour there is a lot of traffic.  We had about 350 AIS targets.  Although a lot it's half what we saw in Singapore over 10 years ago.

Dodging container ships on approach to NY

Dawn approaching NY

Under the Verrazano Narrows Bridge

New York City ahead!

We made our way north through the harbour to Liberty Island.  There we turned in to the Lady Liberty anchorage.  Tis a nice and well-protected anchorage, albeit small.

Staten Island Ferry

At anchor

Did I say it's great to be in New York?  Yes,  it is!

Tomorrow we need to buy diesel.

Trust all's well where you are.