Getting Ready for Henri
21 August 2021 | Port Washington Long Island NY
Mike
A park in Port Washington.
August 21, 2021 Saturday
We spent some time in the morning getting the boat ready for tropical storm Henri including taking things off deck and securing sails.
On our way into the dinghy dock to do our laundry we remembered the farmers market by the Harbormaster’s office so we turned into that dock. A Take your Kid fishing day was in progress with dozens of people fishing along the wharf and docks and one managed to catch us but we soon freed his line without getting their hook into our boat floats.
The farmers’ market was small and Sharon only picked up some French bread, some basil and tomatoes. Then we headed to the other dock and walked to the laundry mat to do three loads of clothes. The laundromat was very busy likely due to it being a Saturday morning but we had no trouble finding available machines and we appreciated all the folding tables the place had. Sharon noticed a couple who looked like cruisers and learned they are on a catamaran and have sailed the Mediterranean and spent time in the Caribbean and are now headed north because their boat insurer required them to be north of some latitude during hurricane season. (They couldn’t see that that was helping them miss hurricanes!)
After the laundry was done, we had a light lunch at a nearby Turkish restaurant and then made our way back to Monarch to drop Sharon and the clean laundry. I loaded four of our five-gallon diesel cans in the dinghy and went to a couple of marina fuel docks to get them filled in case diesel became an issue after the Henri passed. The first was too expensive, so I went to the Safe Harbor fuel dock, filled the cans and returned to Monarch with them. The little electric motor died just short of my return so I rowed the rest of the way. We put up the cockpit enclosure just as the rain started from Henri. I repaired a couple of ripped zipper seams and then declared we were ready for the storm.
Sharon used the basil and tomatoes to make a pasta dish for dinner. I ran the generator to charge the batteries, it having been a cloudy day without much solar energy and we used the power to watch a James Bond movie with Roger Moore, Moonraker.