Port Jefferson to Port Washington, ball

We're in a sweet spot of calm waters this week. Probably will change once the remnants of the latest hurricane, Francine, heads north.

We plan on being here a while, maybe a week. Port Washington is a cute town with easy access to NYC, it's just a 45 minute train ride. And the balls are pretty inexpensive. AND they have a pump out boat. What's not to love?

Some swans and swanlings... swanlets? Swansters?

If we had another 4 day window (which is a luxury in boating so not very likely) we could make it to Baltimore from here. Those are long days, too. We have to cross the Jersey short to head south. Any east wind makes that a "no go" typically -- you don't want the fetch of the entire Atlantic to have to deal with.

We're not in a massive hurry but things are getting a bit crowded in October. We know our slip in Baltimore is rented until Oct 5; that's not a huge inconvenience since we could put inQuest in another slip until it frees up. We do have some things we'd like to do to the boat that requires it to be hauled, like replace the thru hulls, check the bottom paint and repaint if necessary, and install new macerators on our black tanks (fun one, that!). On top of that we need to winterize the boat before we leave Baltimore. If possible we'd like to go see FLIBS (Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show), which is the last week of October.

Another placid day on LIS.

Oh, and we have a condo rental in Tampa that starts Oct 15. 

It's feeling like a busy month to me.

Port Washington. Look at all that space between boats!