Back To Joisey

I think I was saying something about plans.Well whatever they were... this is what really happened,or is still happening.It came to my notice that the bracket that our forestay is shackled to had a couple of cracks.I think they might have been there a while but I only noticed them while inspecting the post 'blowout' damage.That was looking like removing the entire pulpit and finding a welder in Cape May.Then I thought "our old buddy Todd from Liberty Landing is a welder. Lets go to Jersey City"
Wind was right behind us but ,of course,we have no genoa to pole out(but a lovely new pole!)so motored the 100 miles o/night and approached the Big Apple at dawn.
The bright lights in the middle are the sun hitting Manhattan before it came over the horizon and the chart plotter shows the Queen Mary 2 beating us in to New York.We had just received an email from our friends Ed and Sue on Angel Louise saying that she (the Queen )had passed them coming out of the English Channel as they approached Falmouth at the end of thier epic Atlantic crossing.Well I guess it wasn't epic but they did have a dreadful trip from the Azores to Falmouth.We are the black arrow head, by the way,and the Queen and most of the other boats were out of sight.Looks cool though eh?By the way 'Eh' is very Canadian as well as Kiwi eh.
Well we had a quick nap at Sandy Hook and headed up under the Verrazano Bridge and past our beautiful big green girl and back to our 'Joisey'residence up the back of the marina in the work section and amongst our companions the Ellis Island and Liberty cruise boats and the tugs etc.We love it.We also have our families of geese and ducks and not forgetting our Liberty Landing buddies ,particularly Todd our 'saviour' from last year. This time we got to meet his bride Melody and have a great night out at the marina restaurant.
Well New York is still the best city in the world.It's like visiting a whole bunch of countries/cities at once.COSMOPOLITAN this is the real deal.The people ,like all Americans that we've met are the friendliest,most polite and helpful folks you could hope for.(anyone from the government reading this ......put a word in for residency would ya!!) The architecture is varied and beautiful,there are lovely parks everywhere,from tiny to enormous and the many extroverts (who are not in your face....,just doing thier thing)just top it all off.
While we're here getting welding and new lifelines done , and now new batteries,we've managed to go to a couple of FREE concerts.Dr John in beautiful Prospect Park in Brooklyn and Mavis Staples at the Lincoln Centre and in between all sorts of great musicians and bands just round the streets and entertaining all in Central Park.Dave Mathews Band and Bela Fleck and Flecktones are together at Governors Island right here at the end of the month.Hope we can make that one.
Got a chance to see little nephew Scott ,who was visiting with Lee and 'little' Brittany and had a nice arvo in Central Park.Is there something wrong with this photo?Is Gail shrinking or what?

Brittany learning the bubble trade