Saturday, June 6
"D" Day arrived - our long-awaited departure day for the continuance of our Great Loop Adventure which we actually began on 4/11/08 when we left Palm City, Florida and brought "Reflection" up the ICW to our home in Seawood Harbor. After over 13 months of work on her, she looked beautiful and as ready as we could make her for this voyage. Many of our wonderful neighbors were at our dock to share a champagne toast with us and to say good-bye. We left promptly at 10 a.m. and made our way through the Point Pleasant Canal and out through Manasquan Inlet on our way to New York City. Our friend since high school days, Charlie, is with us for the Hudson River portion of this leg of the journey, and by the time we passed Sandy Hook the sun was shining and the view of the Verrazano Bridge and the sky-line of NYC looked magnificent. We anchored the boat at 4:40 p.m. in a great spot behind Liberty State Park near the Statue of Liberty.
A lovely sendoff, so sorry I had to miss it. If I knew champagne was involved, I would have tried to rearrange my schedule. ;-)
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