Jazzy Lady's 2019/20 Cruising Adventure

We are at Great Kills Marina, just south of New York City.
We arrived yesterday and will head offshore for 24 hours on Sunday if weather forecast sticks. That will bring us down to Delaware Bay.
Our mast went up, with no hiccups, on Monday. It was an ALL-DAY affair though! Good gracious, we worked hard! The Marina staff are careful and patient, as they raise our mast with the crane and stay close enough to support us until we have it secured enough to stand on its own. Then they leave the MILLIONS of remaining details to us: putting the rigging all back together where it belongs....like compiling a 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle (many of which we completed on our two week hiatus). The rain that day was RELENTLESS. It ebbed and flowed between drizzling and pouring while Mark and I toiled away, becoming totally saturated by the time we were finished at 5 pm.
A brief sample of what we accomplished: securing the forestay, backstay, the 6 shrouds, tensioning them for equal pressure between port and starboard, hoisting the foresail permanently, running the halyards and foresail furling line into cockpit, re-running the furling line after initially winding it in the wrong direction, attaching boom to mast, putting mainsail hanks into mast track, hoisting the lazy jacks, re-connecting all the wiring through the mast and, finally, waterproofing the seal at the mast step so MY side of the bed doesn't get dripped on all night.
Today and tomorrow we are preparing our little vessel for our day and night off the coast. The weather calls for 5-10 knots of wind, 3-5 foot seas. Very reasonable. The length of the fair weather window is such that we are tempted to stay out on the ocean for two or three night, however, that would have us bypassing Chesapeake Bay and it is supposed to be a beautiful section to cruise through with rich American history to soak up so we will just spend the one night offshore.
We are checking out Central Park, the ´high line´, 9/11 Memorial and F.A.O Schwartz on Saturday. We've befriended a solo sailor who is also hopping offshore on Sunday. Nice to make some sailing buddies.
Annie was ecstatic to see our first jellyfish today