Day 80: Shady Harbor Marina to Kingston City Marina (36NM, 4.75 Hours)

Brian awoke this morning around 1:00am for “nature’s call” and noticed power had been restored.  He put Splash Down back on external power and shut down the generator.  A downed trunk-line wire was the cause of the outage for Albany and Greene Counties.  Over 16,000 - 18,000 customers, depending on which news source was read, were affected.  Once Linda was up, she noted the fog that lingered.  It was with us until after 8am.  Good thing we weren’t planning an early start today.  Linda was able to do a serious reprovisioning run with the marina’s courtesy car while Brian did his weekly engine, strainers and batteries check out.  We finished at the same time.  We stayed at Shady Harbor until 11:30 so we could ‘ride the tide’ down river all the way to Kingston.  The trip down was just as scenic and pretty as the ride up, and it reminded us of things we had “filed away” in our memories.  We were able to view the area we anchored with UNTIED, which was only 10 minutes south of the marina.  We had the throttles set at 9.5 and achieved 9.3 knots, giving us a great fuel burn.  As we passed under the Rip Van Winkle bridge and looked at the Catskills, we promised each other a car trip back to really explore this part of New York.  Before we knew it, we were docked at our same spot along the wall for “large” boats (over 35 feet) at Kingston City Marina, with the promise of dinner at the restaurant within stumbling distance.  This is the old opera house, that we passed on when we were here previously because of the crowd attending the Market Night. We went in early to Mariner’s Harbor Restaurant. Linda talked with the waitress regarding menu items that may or can be made gluten free. The waitress came back from the kitchen to tell Linda that a grilled seafood platter was gluten free. However, after saying grace and started eating, she found stuffing under some of the items. Linda made a quick departure to the boat to get medication, while Brian explained realities of food allergies (once again).