Coastal Cruising: Bay Breeze & Aquavit

This year, big boat traffic and the race made for a little more exciting entry to NY harbor. Returning to New York to start where we left off last year, AQUAVIT spent a week at Liberty Landing Marina to ease back into cruising. This is a very comfortable place off the bustling harbor and and an easy ferry ride across the Hudson to Manhattan. A little busier than usual as there was an international sailing competition being staged from the marina. High-tech cats, achieving impossible speeds on hydrofoils. The race was SailGP. To see these incredible boats visit  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKCZh1HQojg How serendipitous that our young friends, Anna and David were in Brooklyn taking a break from their Appalachian Trail adventure. They were able to join us for a cruise around Ellis Island and Lady Liberty. Then, AQUAVIT took us through a bit of river traffic, up the East River, under the Brooklyn Bridge, past the UN and up through Hell Gate to Rikers Island. Addin...

Well, it’s time to hit the road to catch up with AQUAVIT at Lockwood’s Boatyard in Amboy, New Jersey. We’ll be picking up from where we left off last year to resume our cruise to the easternmost point of the U.S. in Lubec, Maine. Our plan is NYC for a week of museums and plays and then on to Boston Harbor for the 4th of July. Pending weather, we'll be rambling up the coast to New Hampshire and Maine before eventually returning to New Jersey to wait out the peak of hurricane season. If all of our waterfowl can be aligned, we will cruise back to SW Florida in November and December.  Manhattan from our marina at Liberty Landing. Where we ended in July, 2018 is where we will begin.   Last year, we made it to Long Island Sound after cruising about 2,200 miles from our home port on the Florida Big Bend Gulf Coast. In July, 2018, AQUAVIT was trucked back to Snead Island Boatworks in Bradenton, FL. We brought her home, with a stop in Crystal River, and kept at the evolvin...