Night...Night, Sweet Baby

The title of the post is what we said today as we left the marina. We spent the last week aboard the Lucky Find III at the slip in Patsy's Bay, and what we learned is this....in the NYC area no one spends nights on the boat at the marina. Here is a marina with over 200 full slips and we are only ones here.
Apparently it confirmed my beliefs....
In Upstate, NY most boats stern in to their main dock, people stay on boats like it is a their cottage.
You need to remember that both Dottie and I are from down here originally, and we had never heard these.."traditions" and money
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Most boats "bow" in in the NYC area

Uptaters almost always stern in at their slip.

Well, this is what I learned, it is true that it is two upstate traditions, backing in, then spending your weekend aboard doing nothing. In this area, you get to the marina where your boat is "bowed" in, and you take off and go....go somewhere but go, and when you return you bow in, hose her down and go to either your home or summer cottage.....but you never, but never spend your weekend at the local marina, sitting around and drinking beer.

Of course, that is the third tradition that upstate has....drinking beer.
Down here you only drink beer if.....it is so freaking hot out that it quenches your thirst and then it is only one or two nips, or your upstate family or friends show up for a day out on your boat with a cooler of beer. After 5:00PM, it is strictly vodka, scotch, whiskey or an after dinner cordial, such as Ameretto, Midori, Drambuie or a brandy. Same in restaurants, never a beer alweays a wine or cocktail.

In the past three days fall foliage season begun down here, and what a beautiul sight it is:



Here is how the Hudson Valley looked just last week




and here is how it looked on 10/11/12....what a difference a week makes!



Bear Mountain Bridge on 10/11/12

OK...so, we spent the last few days aboard the boat and got her ready for haul out which is scheduled with marina for Wednesday the 3rd. By Tuesday it's ready, and I had 3 funerals to take care of in Clyde, so they hauled it without our help, and here she sits wainting for us.

Notice the complimentary steps and step ladder

We returned to the marina on Sunday the 7th, and we took the last items off, pressure washed the bottom and hull and cam back to Clyde on Wednesday, October 10th...almost with tears in our eyes

Dottie doing the pressure washing of the bottom and hull




Today is Monday, the 15th of October and our 35th wedding anniversary....it is also the day that the 4th funeral in a row came in and as Dottie has said each October 15th since 1977, "Damm, this business, can we ever have a day to ourselves...and I respond, "Maybe next year baby....Maybe"!
Anyway. this funeral reminds me of just how lucky we are and were in the past years. It is also a time to Thank Our Lucky Stars... It is a funeral of a stillbirth female.....I hate doing baby funerals

"Night Night Little Baby" or "Night Night Sweet Baby Girl" 

It's Winding Down....and a great summer it was!!

We returned to Tarrytown on Thursday, but a day late is better than never.

A Week ago Monday we took our last cruise with the Lucky Find III for this year.
We cruised from Tarrytown to Stony Point, and although it is ony 8 miles, marina to marina, it was a sad cruise because both Dottie and I knew she would be on the hard in a couple of more days. We wondered around the Hudson River like we did not know where to go, and it was a straight run from Tarrytown to Patsy's Bay.We made it OK, dfound our slip and tied it off......now, to get back to Tarrytown and get our car.

We arrived at about 3PM and had to kill about  an hour so we could take the ferry from Haverstraw to Ossining, and then the train from Ossining to Tarrytown. Luckily I planned on the first scheduled departure of the Ferry which was at 4:30 PM. (they run every half-hour, on thehour and the half hour)I called a taxi company which was about a 3 block walk from where we were. I told them we needed a cab from Patsy's Bay Marina to Haverstraw to the ferry terminal. He said OK....we will be there in 10 mins. Well, after about an hour of waiting (it's now 5:15pm) I called a different taxi Company and they picked us up within 10 mins and we're on the way to the ferry terminal for the 5:30 departue.

Now, let me remind you....the ride from Haverstraw is a 15 min ferry ride across the Hudson, and then a 10 minute ride via the Metro North to Tarrytown...here is where we get screwed for time......the train made us wait about 45 minutes for the ride to Tarrytow, so we did not arrive in Tarrytown until 6:45PM....and I am starving, cause I usually eat at 6:00PM. Thank God, Striped Bass restaurant is about a one minute walk from the train station. By 7:00PM, the food was on our table, and I devoured a couple of dozen of raw clams, mussels, lobster and shrimp, all served over cracked ice, Ice Cold.....Delisious.

Now, let me remind you....the ride from Haverstraw is a 15 min ferry ride across the Hudson, and then a 10 minute ride via the Metro North to Tarrytown...here is where we get screwed for time......the train made us wait about 45 minutes for the ride to Tarrytow, so we did not arrive in Tarrytown until 6:45PM....and I am starving, cause I usually eat at  6:00PM. Thank God, Striped Bass restaurant is about a one minute walk from the train station. By 7:00PM, the food was on our table, and I devoured a couple of dozen of raw clams, mussels, lobster and shrimp, all served over cracked ice, Ice Cold.....Delisious.

At 8:30 PM, we left the Tarrytown maina in our car to take the 30 minute ride across the Tappan Zee to the Thruway and to Stony Point. Back to the boat by 9:00PM, and in bed by 9:30....LOL. I need my beauty sleep.

Sunset on Hudson from Tarrytown to Ossining, NY