DAY 39 -- WARETOWN, NJ TO BROOKLYN, NY
DAY 39 -- WARETOWN, NJ TO BROOKLYN, NY This was the last day of phase one of our trip -- Naples to New York -- the day we had to say goodbye to Craunological II until August -- when we will start again and continue on to Maine. We are pleased to have accomplished all this boating safely and happily but are kind of sad to be leaving our little aquatic home. I figure we ran 665 miles since we left Norfolk, giving us a total of about 1,850 miles since we left Naples (including a few extra miles for going out of the way for anchorages while cruising the Intracoastal). We got underway at 0815 and pulled into the Mill Basin marina four and a half hours later. The Atlantic was much calmer today, with a light wind out of the west and gentle swells from the south. We ran close along the shore all the way to the start of Sandy Hook, at which point we headed across the approach to NY harbor to Rockaway Inlet, then a hard lef