Tonight we ended up about half way between Castleton and New York City.  We picked up one of 5 mooring balls at White's Hudson River Marina in New Hamburg, NY.  If we had moved the boat two days ago we would have had 6 to choose from.  Apparently yesterday when we had relatively benign conditions at Castleton, and were thinking we should have moved, conditions were slightly different here.  The marina owner said the winds here were 50 mph, with 6 foot waves.  A large boat (in the 35 foot range) pulled one of the mooring balls a couple of miles upstream!

We had rain most of the day, but also rode a favorable tide pretty much the whole day.  We were also able to motor-sail most of the day.  With the tide and the sail assist we showed speeds of 8 plus knots over the ground.  The most exciting thing that happened was when the "professionally" spliced towing line on the dinghy parted and we had to go back to retrieve it.  Sue spent the next half hour seizing the lines in place, which she should have done yesterday during the lay day!  (Sue wrote the last, not me!!)

Late in the day we saw the blue catamaran that had been tied up at NCYC and then TBM.  It's on a mooring just a couple miles upstream from where we are now.  We also saw the Vanderbilt mansion (that gal must have really sold a lot of jeans!) and CIA headquarters - in this case the Culinary Institute of America.  Wonder if they have any good recipes for lentil soup?

                                                   Zim wants to know what's to eat.

                                                         Waiting for table service.