There are things that just change when you make the final move from land based to water based. For me one of the most dramatic is my feeling about public bathrooms. I have to confess that the tide of opinion has rapidly and dramatically reversed it’s self for me when it comes to the role…

It seems somehow fitting that the entry to New York City should be something dramatic and as we left City Island and rounded the first bend going under Throg’s Neck Bridge the entry to a section of water known locally as Hell Gate was exciting for more than one reason. I wish that I could…

After nearly a week at Port Jefferson we finally left. It was a nice place to visit and we were able to reprovision quite thouroughly, more importantly we stayed safe from the worst of the effects of Ida. But it was time to go. The ladies at the local library recognized us because we were…

So everyone wants to know…how bad is it? The storm, the weather, the waves, and the wind it’s all over the news. Right now we are just getting lots of rain and wind here, mostly rain. When we saw what was coming we decided we’d stay put. We haven’t even left Port Jefferson. It does…

So I probably made an error by mentioning that it was calm and essentially nothing to report. Apparently that’s a good way to bring Ida as well as a bit of mayhem in our general direction.. or so it seems. So here’s the story, as we came into Port Jefferson we broke a transmission control…

Our major excitement last night was coming in to a dock we anticipated was like a “normal” dock only to find it was more like a dock for a large ferry, no decking floating on the water to jump to and tie up at, it was more like a pier for a commercial boat. Tying…