July 20, We left our dock at the marina early in the am to get a good start to the day with Suzanne making breakfast underway. We usually have at least a coffee or two into us before we leave to start the days off correctly. We had topped off with water and diesel from the marina the day before. We hit the tides right and we had a good current running with us giving us good time and course over ground. The river was opening up here from the canals, and was a very pretty trip. We loved the old lighthouses in the river system. Before we hit the Gov. Mario M. Cuomo Bridge, we saw our single hander from Castleton heading across, then back upriver. Hope he knows that's not the way to South Carolina! Funny guy! His sails were still up, so I guess he did get that sorted out. We initially thought we would stay at Westpoint, as I am able to stay at any Allied military base being retired military. Unfortunately, although they do have docks there, there was no place we could see to be able to tie up, and nobody answered the VHF to get any information on stopping over. No worries, we were off to the next place we could stay and decided on Peekskill. We entered the marked channel to get to Peekskill Yacht Club and found an end slip to tie up at. Suzanne and I went ashore to the clubhouse to ask permission to tie up for the night. Nobody was around, but we eventually found a family heading to their boat for the night and they set us up via cellphone to the Commodore. He kindly allowed us to tie up for the night at no charge. This was a very nice little self-help yacht club. It is not close to anything within walking distance for stores, restaurants, etc that we could find. There were no services available, but a nice dock to tie up to. We did find out where all those trains were heading at 80 MPH from Castleton as the whole evening was train whistles constantly all stopping at the station close by. We timed them and they were quick, with one count at 1 minute 42 seconds. Later in the evening the trains did quieten down, thank goodness. Supper aboard and a few glasses of wine and we were done for another day.
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