Saturday, Aug. 24th, sunny, hot, windless.... And a weekend on western Long Island Sound, crazy busy... We discovered that, despite the assurances of the Yacht Club staff in New Haven, we were aground in the muck.... Much rocking and swaying ensued and, after about 10 minutes we were away.

We had an uneventful trip down the Connecticut shore and then across to Oyster Bay, NY on Long Island. We decided to go right into Oyster Bay and motored past massive water-side mansions, gorgeous old wooden boats and the storied Seawanahka Yacht Club and anchored off the town beach. There was still 5 or 6 feet of tide so we were careful where we dropped so as to avoid a repeat of the morning's adventure.

A quiet night and a good run on the beach with Cocoa and we we off to NYC. The trip from Oyster Bay to Flushing only took 4 1/2 hours. But it was busy. The Worlds Fair Marina was built on the site if th '39 ang '64 World's Fairs and sits between Citi Field (aka Shea Stadium) and LaGuardia Airport, it's not a quiet retreat, but at $2/foot it's the cheapest tie up anywhere in Ling Island Sound.... About 25 minutes walk brought us to a great supermarket in the middle of a Latino neighbourhood.
Back at the boat we had a great happy hour listening to the roar of the crowd at the Mets game and the roar of the Jets at LaGuardia.