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" 

OK.....All Decisions are Final

The decision was made last month to winter the Lucky Find III in Stony Point, NY at Patsy's Bay Marina.
Check out their website, as it is a real nice, affordable marina specializing in winter storage. I did not want to say anything earlier because the manager of the Tarrytown Marina is also a part-owner of Charles Point Marina, which is where we told them we would winter the Lucky Find III.

Our plans, and they are final, are to return to Tarrytown this Wednesday, stay aboard the Lucky Find III until the following Tuesday or Wednesday and then bring the boat over to Patsy's Bay. Our in-water storage is paid through the 15th of October at the Tarrytown Boat Club and Marina, but the manager of Patsy's Bay said we could stay there, in the water, until haul-out season begins in Mid-October at no charge. I guess boating south of Albany automatically adds a month or two to the season. Being back homne this past week, I stopped at Oak Park Resort Marina, and they are already hauling out, winterizing ands shrink-wrapping boats.

Also, we have made plans and bought tickets to attend Progressive Insurance's  Norwalk Boat Show.
The show begins on Thursday the 20th and runs through Sunday the 23rd of September. It bills itself as the "Premeir Boat Show of Northeast", and we will see just how true that is by next Saturday.

I would have liked to return a day or two earlier, but work is work, and I have funerals scheduled for this coming Monday and Tuesday.