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" 

Back to Tarrytown...AGAIN!!

The 4.5 hour ride from Clyde to Tarrytown was uneventful and easy-going. There is no such thing as traffic in upstate NY and I did not hit any real traffic the whole way down. I left Clyde at 7:30 AM and arrived back to the marina at 12 Noon. Dottie and I had a nice lunch at the El Dorado in Tarrytown, and then it hit....a storm from the south with as much rain, wind and power as we had never seen.....5 minutes later it was over and the sun was out.
Due to the storm, a scheduled "Chili Cook-Off" at the marina was cancelled, and re-scheduled for the following day.
At 5:30 PM, Karen Berlingo and her SO, Gary, showed up bearing gifts of wine and wine glasses. After a few cocktails aboard the Lucky Find III we headed out to dinner at the Red Hat Restaurant and Bistro.
Dinner was good and company we had, even better. The Red Hat Restaurant is a nice place for dinner, but truthfully, nothing spectacular. It tries it's hand at a French-Italian menu, but at a cost of about $100.00 per person ($375.27 including tax and tip), it could have been a lot nicer and the food could have been a bit more traditional for restaurants in that price range. I had the Mussells and Dottie, Karen and Gary all had Osso Buco. We had a great time, but I was really disappointed in the restaurant. Oh well, we live and learn! I'll rate the food as OK.
Karen and I had dinner about 5 or 6 years ago at a place called Harvest on the Hudson, in Hastings-on-the-Hudson, NY and Harvest ran circles around Red Hat in it's quality and service.

Later on today we are heading to Arthur Ave. in the Bronx for the Ferragosto Festival and plenty of really good and authentic Italian food. Karen and Gary will join us there.

Thursday, September 13 through Sunday September 23rd is the 11 day Italian Festival on Mulberry Street in Manhattan. It is well known as the Feast of San Gennaro.....and I plan on being there......LOL