This is a new marina for us, right next to Coney Island. It's called Miramar. We picked it because it makes a quicker jump off point to start southward, making it about 2 hours shorter than starting at Great Kills on Staten Island.
The weather is looking only marginal for my taste. But with the next hurricane, Helene, already thundering it's way up the gulf, there's an argument to "just get it done." The plan is to head south and get to (at least) Manasquan, which is the first "GET OFF THE WATER" point along the coast. If we're feeling confident, we'll go all the way to Atlantic City for the night. But we won't make that call until we're underway.
NYC in the gloom
Three of us, One Eye Dog, Highwind, and ourselves, made reservations for balls here a couple of days ago. We all immediately got positive responses ball assignments. Because they work Highwind got underway right at the crack of dawn. OED and we started later, largely because we wanted to pick up a little bit of fuel -- just to make sure we had enough to get to AC if we laid the throttles down.
When Highwind got here, tho, there was a vessel on their ball. They got reassigned, no biggie. When we got here we were re-assigned their ball. And a vessel was still on it. The launch didn't seem to believe us so came out to investigate and, lo, ball is occupied. They apologized then (and this was a new one) moved the other vessel. I found that amusing.
Moving a derelict boat from our assigned ball.
Due to rainy weather we aren't going to explore Coney Island. But I suspect we might come back.
Russ working on some bugs while passing the old Pepsi-Cola building.
The ride to Coney Island, just past the Verrazano Bridge.
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