Wednesday, September 23, 2015 – Stratford, CT to Little Neck
Bay, NY
Another day dawned clear and blue. Went up to the office at 8am to return the
bathroom key and receive our $20 deposit.
While looking around the store Bob noticed a discontinued VDO Tachometer
in their display counter which appeared to be the very one we have on K2F. He made a quick trip to the boat and returned
with the flying bridge tachometer for comparison and sure enough, it appeared
to be a close enough fit. They sold the
$300 (in its day) obsolete piece of equipment to us for $60 so Bob was
thrilled.
Back on K2F we backed out of our slip and continued our journey west in Long Island Sound. A pretty straight run for 6 hours placed us in Little Neck Bay and a free anchorage location. We didn’t have the anchor in for 10 minutes before Bob was in the water and then he asked me to retrieve his mask, fins and snorkel! He did use his time wisely by scrubbing off the upper few feet of boat bottom.
When he was about half finished a sailboat stopped by to say hi and ask where we were headed. A local, he gave us some suggestions for staying in a marina in the city so we can catch the subway. Awesomely nice warm, tranquil day in the middle of the bay with no one around and watching all the busy traffic on shore while sunning on the foredeck to dry.
Back on K2F we backed out of our slip and continued our journey west in Long Island Sound. A pretty straight run for 6 hours placed us in Little Neck Bay and a free anchorage location. We didn’t have the anchor in for 10 minutes before Bob was in the water and then he asked me to retrieve his mask, fins and snorkel! He did use his time wisely by scrubbing off the upper few feet of boat bottom.
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| Quick bottom job |
When he was about half finished a sailboat stopped by to say hi and ask where we were headed. A local, he gave us some suggestions for staying in a marina in the city so we can catch the subway. Awesomely nice warm, tranquil day in the middle of the bay with no one around and watching all the busy traffic on shore while sunning on the foredeck to dry.
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| Red Sky at Night... |
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