Sunday, 14 September 2014

Norwalk Islands

We had a good anchorage last night as New Haven has three large breakwaters across the entrance (I cannot imagine the work that goes into making these large masses of land) so it really keeps the rolling down. In the middle of the night (of course) the wind started blowing hard so I was up a few times in the night to check things out and to make sure the anchor was not dragging. We are now well into Long Island Sound and the increase in power and sailboats is apparent. It is busy enough that seeing another boat is no big deal and nobody waves to you like back in Nova Scotia. The power boats also are more of an issue as they seen to have no problem with passing close to you at any speed!

We arrived in Norwalk Islands around 2:00 but had to search around to find suitable anchorages as the area has quite a few oyster traps plus the area is very shallow in spots but we seem to have found a good anchorage. New York is about 25NM away from here and you can see the buildings of the city in this picture. Tomorrow our plan is to go to City Island just at the beginning of East River for our run down through New York.

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