Labor Day Weekend

What a quiet weekend it was here in Tarrytown. Everyone that we met here told us that this past weekend was the quietest it has been in years. They blame it on the economy....oh well , so is life.
Even the guy working the fuel dock brought in some extra help, and they sat around all day pumping fuel in only a handful of boats. Monday morning there were a total of 6 cars in the marina parking lot.....it kind of reminded me of Oak Park Resort Marina.... LOL



My father, who passed in 1968 at the age of 50, is entombed in an underground vault in  St. Raymond's Cemetery, in the Bronx
(Click on the picture for a larger image)

 On Saturday, we drove to the Bronx, stopped at St. Raymonds Cemetery to check on my dad's grave, and then on to visiting some of Dottie's family at Askov Hall in the old neighborhood of Throgs Neck. Sunday and Monday was spent driving around the Hudson Valley looking at different marinas in which to keep our boat. It is still up in the air.
We hit upon some very nice marinas in this area, so now it really just becomes a matter of cost.

We made plans to drive to Connecticut to see a few more marinas then meet our friends, the Parisis' for dinner on Tuesday, and we will be returning to Clyde on Thursday.

Final Post to this Trip

It was an uneventful 5 hour car ride back to Syracuse, picked up my Chrysler Sebring Convertible and followed Dottie to the Spaghetti Warehouse Restaurant for dinner then onward to the Enterprise Car Rental at Hancock Airport.

We arrived back in Clyde at about 9PM......however, the memories of this trip will last a lifetime!!

The End is Near...My Friends

Today  is our last day of this leg of our Loop Trip, and the end of our 2012 cruising season.
We will go from the Bronx back to Tarrytown, call Enterprise, get a car and tomorrow drive back to Clyde.

Sometime during the coming month, we will drive back down to Tarrytown and ready the boat for the winter.....It's a SAD, SAD, day for us.

Getting ready to wind down the season

We left this AM at around 9:00AM and headed across NY HArbor to the East River.....up the river and through Hells Gate (an area of about a dozen whirlpools) and on to "DaBronx". As we passed through Hells Gate, I called my old boss and he arranged for us to spend the day at the Locust Point Yacht Club.

We had arrived in the Bronx at about 11AM, but we had to wait for the tide to rise so we could enter the channel to the Yacht Club.

NYC or bust.....and we did it!!!!!!

And off to NYC we go.....we left the dock at 9:15 Am and made the 40 mile run to NY Harbor.....it really was a thrill for us.......as we saw so many of the sights that we had seen before, but have not re-visited in the past 35 years or so. We arrived at the Liberty Landing Marina at 1:00PM. I guess I am no longer use to NYC and it's prices. This was the most expensive marina to date, costing us $167.80 for one night's dockage


Tappan Zee Bridge in background



The Mercy Motherhouse

Spunten Dival Bridge, seperating the Bronx from Manhattan, and crossingthe Harlem River.

First we kissed the Tappan Zee good-bye, and through the haze and light fog the GW Bridge came into view. On the way south we went throgh Dobbs Ferry, NY and as I remeber it, The Mercy Motherhouse, where my sister Angela entered the convent was now a group of condos. 
Then came the Sputen Dival bridge, which seperates the Bronx from Manhattan.....via the Harlem River.


George Washington Bridge, the first two layered bridge in the Tri-State area.






Palisades Mountains in New Jersey

 



Carnival's Glory at the 34th St. Pier



The Space Shuttle is now a musuem in NYC at 32nd St.



Ellis Island Immigration Offices




The Statue of Liberty completely re-done with pride, by my father in law, Frank Messmer and brother in law, John Messmer and 100 other union sheet metal workers

 

Dottie on the bow as we approach the Statue of Liberty