It’s hard to believe, but we were here at Kingston two months ago (20 June) arriving from Half Moon Bay, Croton-on-Hudson. Linda did not have a major issue with her gluten-contaminated food yesterday — dodge another bullet with persistence and care. So, today we departed Kingston for
Haverstraw Marina at 9:15am. We thought the current would be against us for the two to three hours, then the current would be with us for the rest of the way. We set the throttles for 9750 RPM. We traveled at 7 knots against the current, but it took longer than expected. Then around 11:45am we began to see an increase in speed. At first, it was 8 knots. By 1:00pm, we were averaging 9.6 knots. Weeeeeee! Fall colors are becoming more prominent as we traveled along. Yes, your probably asking yourself, “how could we notice the fall colors traveling at this awesome speed?” Trust us, it is possible. The wind was consistently at 5-10 knots with higher gusts on our nose, but
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| Esopus Meadows Lighthouse |
surprisingly, it did not noticeably impact our speed. We again passed the beautiful
Esopus Meadows Lighthouse - a wooden structure built in 1871 to mark the mud flats that extended into the river. As we navigated past the “World’s End” narrows that rounded Gees Point (deepest part of the Hudson River - sonar showed a depth of 190 feet at one point) at the United States Military Academy (West Point), we were hoping to see the notorious whirlpools that has caused problems for boaters (and got our attention on the trip up). Not. We saw whirlpools. But, they were more of a novelty. By the way, it seemed like we had the Hudson River to ourselves for most of the trip. It’s nice not having to dodge commercial barges and small boats (sail, power, and strong armed). We arrived at Haverstraw’s fuel dock at 3:00pm. We found we managed about 2.25 kmpg since our last fill-up. Another “Weeeeee.”
