Miles Traveled 40.4
Total Miles Traveled 4386
Day 260
Today was the last leg of the Atlantic Ocean route to New
York. The predictions for wind and waves
were favorable, but a chance of afternoon thunderstorms was possible. We decided to leave at sunrise this morning to
avoid any chance of foul weather while on open water. This will be our last sunrise over the
Atlantic Ocean on our Great Loop Adventure.
We had good cruising conditions all the way to Sandy Hook
and into the Lower Bay to Staten Island, New York.
Dredging operations near Sandy Hook, New Jersey.
New York City skyline…..a little overcast this morning.
The Romer Shoal Light, north of the tip of Sandy Hook,
stands 54 feet tall and was raised in 1898.
The lighthouse, and the shoals in Lower Bay, was named for Colonel
Wolfgang William Romer, a British military engineer who sounded the waters of
New York Bay in 1700.
We are staying at a marina in Great Kills, NY on Staten
Island. The neighborhoods name comes
from a Dutch translation “kill” meaning creek or channel. This area has many small streams and the name
can be interpreted as meaning that a great number of such streams can be found
here.
The clouds started moving in this afternoon, but we did
not get a thunderstorm……yet.
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