Laura was baking up a storm in the morning with something new - apple cinnamon braided short-bread. While it was rising, we decided to take a dinghy ride into the town of Haverstraw at the western side of the cove. The sun was just peaking out so we turned off the generator and let the solar panels charge our batteries.
Here is a picture of Second Wind from shore
I drove around the cove looking for a place to tie up. No usable docks around the cove but there was a rocky place to tie up near a walkway. We were able to get off and tie up the dinghy to a large rock. No place to lock it up but we weren't going far - just a little walk to loosen up and exercise a bit.
The main street in town had lots of small shops and was fairly busy for a Tuesday afternoon. For some reason, it seemed like there were 2 or 3 barber shops or hair salons on each block. How often do people in this town get their hair cut?
You can just see our little dinghy in the right-middle of this picture tied to shore. Not much there.We walked a few blocks then came back to check on the dinghy and maybe walk the other direction. After buying a quart of milk at a small grocery store, we walked a little farther then saw someone standing around about 20-30 feet from the dinghy. Deciding not to take any chances, we went back and quickly got underway. I drove all around the cove looking for other places to stop but nothing was available - just grass and stone shoreline.
We tied the dinghy up behind the boat so we could use it later to visit Slow Cruisin'. Our friends Lee and Linda had left Catskill early this morning and were going to anchor near us for the night. I sent Lee the waypoints for safely entering the cove and relaxed most of the afternoon. I even took a nice nap!
Slow Cruisin' entered the cove around 6pm and anchored about 150 feet from us. 1/2 hour later we dinghy'd over with cocktails and a large salad Laura had made as our contribution to dinner. Lee made Chicken Parmesan and we chatted while it was cooking. We had a fun evening with good friends. Here are our two boats anchored under the sunset in Haverstraw Cove.
They told us they were going to Northport on Long Island for several days to visit friends since there wasn't a weather window for the next week off the NJ coast. I looked up distances and tides to see if we could join them (we are much slower). Tomorrow was the only day of helping winds which would change to the east on Thursday - the direction we would need to go down Long Island Sound. We could have left at 5am to make the long journey but we would have had a very long day around NYC and into Long Island Sound. We decided to head down to Atlantic Highlands instead and wait there for our weather window.
Back at our boat, it was humid and warm. The temps were hovering in the high 70s outside and lows 80s inside at 10pm and I was starting to sweat just getting ready for bed. We had all the windows / hatches open but even that breeze was warm and humid. I decided to take advantage of the work I had performed to on our air-conditioner and try running it off our Honda generator. I moved the generator off the back deck (was right over our bed) to the side of the boat and ran it all night. It worked excellent and cooled the boat down quickly Only problem was I woke up at 2am wondering when it was going to run out of gas (it only holds just under 1 gallon). After lying in bed for 1/2 hour, I got up and filled the tank so it would run the rest of the night. Then I slept well until early morning. At least for now, I had no problem using 2 gallons of gasoline to stay comfortable all night. That might change in the future when we are in remote places and gasoline replenishment isn't easy or inexpensive.
Wow. Air-conditioning on Second Wind while anchored! First time in 13 years and it felt excellent!
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