Thurs. Sept. 25, 2025 Mystic Seaport, Conn to Port Washington, NY 106 miles and 10.8 hours
The tropics are not getting any better. Gabrielle stayed far enough out to sea it was a non-event for us. But Humberto is coming with another wave forming behind it. My weather apps continue to say get around NJ on Saturday and up the Delaware Bay on Sunday. If not, we'll be stuck on Long Island Sound for at least another 10-14 days before a suitable weather window opens. So we're pushing hard with some long travel days. Not happy that we'll be skipping visits to all of the Long Island Sound areas but putting the crew and ships safety is priority at this point. Funny thing about boating schedules. The weather always plays a major part. Our original master schedule had us arriving in NYC at the beginning of October. So we're not that far off - actually early. The odd thing was we had been running 1-2 weeks behind our schedule until the last few days. Makes it pretty obvious we had planned on spending more time in the area and may require a return visit in the future.
Early morning departure from Mystic catching the first highway bridge opening at 7:40. Rainy overnight and it continued as we departed. Fairly heavy a few times while making way through the mooring fields but after a few hours it stopped and just remained overcast.
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| Nasty looking rain, but at least it wasn't wind driven |
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| Once through this radar indicated blob we had only overcast skies and building winds |
Winds from the S-SW at 10-15 gusting to 25-30. Trip is all open water crossing with not much to see but the distant shorelines. Late morning in the middle of the sound the wind and waves picked up dramatically. SW winds have us pounding into the waves. We alter course to ride closer to the NY side which offered a bit more protection. We arrive at Port Jefferson entrance at 2PM and decide to make this a longer day and head to Port Washington instead. The tradeoff is a shorter day on Friday as we head through NYC for Great Kills.
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| Execution Rock Lighthouse. Numerous unsubstantiated tales for how it got its name including convicted murderers were shackled to the rocks at low tide and left to drown. |
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| Some high rise buildings around the New Rochelle area (?) |
Things are settling down a bit once we hit Port Washington but still some wind and chop as we grab the line to an open municipal mooring ball. So much easier than anchoring as long as we know the moorings are well maintained like these. Long exhausting day so we're in bed early and sleep soundly getting ready for the busy transit of NYC.
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| Secured to our mooring. Big mooring field in a large harbor so still enough fetch for some wind driven chop. |
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| Journey for Sept. 25, 2025 |
