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As you get closer to New York City, the
facilities become few and far between. We chose to spent a night at Newburgh
with friends on "Nootka Dancer" and new friends on "Free Radical." The
friends were great, but you should avoid this place like the plague! |
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The marina charges $2.75 a foot and you're put
on the outer dock face completely without protection. There are multiple
restaurants here where the food is average and the prices are astronomical. |
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In the afternoon, three Donzi's did speed trials
100 feet off the docks. Boats were flying everywhere. When we
brought this to the Dock Master's attention, he said they came from another
marina and "He'd get them next year." We were dealing with a complete
idiot here! |
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This is the first peek at "West Point" when
approaching from the north. You have to get around the bend in the
river aptly named "The Race." |
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If you think this is an interesting structure,
you ain't seen nut'n yet!. |
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Now that's a building! |
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Boats use to be allowed to tie up and take the
tour. Since 9-11, security has been tightened and it's no longer
allowed. That's a real shame because the tour is absolutely
incredible. |
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You need a wide angle lens to take in the size
of the facility. |
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There is a rather large gap in photographs here
because the rain started to pour down and fog closed visibility down to one
quarter mile. We ran some four or five hours on the radar again. |
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We ran out of the fog and bang there was the
first big bridge we'd actually seen. |
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I told the crew that we were going to be going
through the "Big Apple," but as you can see they were not impressed.
With threading all the restricted "Security Zones" and dodging the area
cordoned off where the "Staten Island Ferry" sank, we have no pictures of
N.Y. City. |
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As we passed 9-11 ground zero, we lowered the
flags to half-mast and dipped the Canadian flag in respect to America's
fallen. I too remembered my former Univac associate Ken Basnicki, also
cut down by this senseless crime. |
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Winds were reported NW 10-15, favourable for a
run to Cape May; so we pulled an overnighter and headed out onto the
Atlantic. |
