Day 290: Friday, June 21, 2013
Port to Port: Kingston, NY
Underway: 0:00 am Motor Off: 0:00 pm Miles Traveled: 0 Stayed At: Marina
Mile to Mile: I figured out what I want to do when I grow up today. I want to volunteer at a maritime museum that also happens to have a small marina attached to it. I want to be like Ron. He is an amazing volunteer here that used to work at the Museum of Natural History in NYC and now contributes much of his free time here. He gets to use his creativity helping to design and build displays in the museum and meet all the different people who arrive here by boat everyday (thanks Ron for everything that you do – we appreciate it immensely). I wonder how many of these there are in the country?
Today we played musical boats. A 120’ luxury motor yacht was arriving today so, after several boats left this morning, Spiritus moved back to the next dock down river and we moved Aurora up to where Spiritus had been. It was an interesting juxtaposition when Mimi, came up river, turned around and slid sideways onto the dock right in front of us. There used to be four other cruisers in that space. Amazing. Mimi has a Minnesota connection. She is owned by Stanley Hubbard of Hubbard Broadcasting (KSTP) in Minnesota. She is headed to Chicago and also waiting for the locks to open. Coincidently, we met the Captain and First Mate running Stanley Hubbard’s 57’ motoryacht when we were going south by Pebble Isle along the rivers last fall. It is a small world.
I don’t know where the day went. We had a short, emotional ceremony where Tom passed the key to the restroom on to Eddy. It was very moving. I finished painting the rubber paint on the dinghy. Now I just have to reseal the front tube that has started leaking too fast. Ron took Cindy and I up to a nearby gas station and post office where we got gas and sent home about 15 pounds of books and guides we don’t need anymore (thanks again Ron). Before we knew it, it was time for docktails. Our group is getting smaller but, as long as we have two boats or more, its enough for a party. A group of us wandered through town trying to find a place to eat dinner. Pizza sounded good but the nearest one seemed closed and we found out the other one we were heading towards was also closed. Weird. So we ended up at a sketchy Chinese place – we were starving. We sat and chatted with Eddy and Linda as we watched the supermoon rise over the river and said goodnight to another interesting day on the Loop.
