In the Big Apple
21 June 2009 | NYC, New York
We pulled in to NYC this morning, before the gale. We'll stay put here for a day or two until the weather settles and then try to get through Long Island Sound before the new work start date of next Monday. Aside from the clouds and rain, and oh, the biting houseflies that arrived 2 days ago from nowhere on a puff of wind, (I forgot about those lovely creatures!), all went well on our trip. Thank goodness for electronic charting and AIS. With all the fog & drizzle, that's how we navigated in here. The statue of liberty looks so nice at night- we passed close to it around 4am. No joke, there was a tour boat hovering around it and camera flashes were going off. I guess this really is the city that never sleeps!
Well, we're going to tour around today and try to stay warm. The low tonight is supposed to be 58. We'll have to come back to the boat early and try to fire up our heating system. Since we haven't had to use it in 2 years, we expect we may have to do some troubleshooting. We're not sure exactly how we feel about all this but....