Tidbit Racing in Haverstraw Bay

[Joe(Cold Spring onHudson)]

So today I sailed south with the tide and the wind. With the tide making 6+ kt was not a hard thing.

Once you pass the Bear Mountain Bridge the topography changes and you leave the Highlands.

Wind picked up as the land flattens

Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant, kinda scary looking, and comes as a shock as you round the point.

But then the Hudson opens up to the big wide Haverstraw Bay

Entering the bay

Passed this yacht that had yet to step it's mast. WHOA {eeek}

The sailboats came out like fireflies as the wind picked up

Tidbit got a lot of ooohs and ahhhs as I crossed tacks with the other boats. I even attempted to race a lil

OK maybe they pulled away a lil. But hey they used their spinnakers LOL

[umop_apisdn]

That is something I noticed. Maybe it is just me, but it seems to me that sailboats are ALWAYS racing. If you are anywhere in the vicinity of another boat headed even remotely in the same direction as you are, it automatically becomes a race.

I'm not just imagining that, am I?

Noel

[JeffM]

It's not called racing, Noel, its called comparing! As in, "I wonder how fast my boat is compared to that one? I wonder how high my rig can point compared to his?

[umop_apisdn]

Thank you, Jeff. I am still learning all the proper nautical terms that go with being a sailor. :-)

Now if I can just figure out why the turn signals on my boat are different colors, I'll be set to go...

Noel

[adla]

That tidbit ---- i don't know about all the trees and greenery in the back ground...but the cat boat is Sweet.

a.

[kydocfrog]

Well, the trees and greenery are kind of an East Coast thing. You get used to them after a while, and a lot of us actually become quite fond of them -- except possibly during allergy season. If you ever want to trailer Morgaine east, don't let them worry you too much...we realize you folks out there are greenery challenged, but counseling is available in many places to help with the transitions.

DocA; planning test launch this weekend...I hope.

[Bud_Wilson]

Adla I have noticed there are no trees on the bank of the lakes in Nevada are all those lakes salt water? If not why not plant a few trees? Do you have no compasion for your poor dogs? Seams to me like hiking your leg next to a catai would be dangerous. Just my thought. y'all Come Cap'N Bud. O yea nice pictures Joe. :wink:

[adla]

good call Bud - it doesn't rain much past the 100th meridian but on top of that the Northern Nevada lakes are terminus and therefore salty (the water doesn't flow out or filter it just evaporates and leaves salts and minerals behind). Not as salty as the Great Salt Lake but brackish and alkaline none the less. There are still some fish (but that may change in the next ten years unless people stop trying to farm in the arid west)

My dog is a gal and doesn't hike her leg....she liKes the Desert lAkes

she is no tree hugger and as much as i like Joan Baez - there ain't no trees to sit in around these parts.

a.

[JeffM]

Adla, have you read Cadillac Dessert? An eye-opening look at water and politics and history in the west. I read it years ago before my first real trip out that way (El Paso to Grand Canyon). I remember well that magical 100th meridian.

[Pipefitter]

Great pictures JCSOH. I bet you have more time logged on that boat than it's first owner already.

And the thing about being fond of the greenery up in snowville is it gets taken away every year to what looks like death after all the trees have shed. Down here in the south,it stays green all year. If we were designed to live up in those parts,we would have been born with fur.

[Ken_Potts]

Oh no! I grow more fur every year - Please don't make me move North!

[adla]

As a matter of fact Jeff - I read Cadillac Desert last semester....Reisner is prone to hyperbole but it sells copy. i think he nailed western politics though...

What is TiDbit DoiNg?....More pICtures....

a.

[Joe(Cold Spring onHudson)]

What is TiDbit DoiNg?....More pICtures....

a.

Well now that you asked

Tidbit played host to a forum friend Steven from Maine last weekend.

So anyway Steven and I sailed down to Garrison and past West Point which was having commencement ceremony.

There was so much security traffic' date=' Police boats, Coast Guard Cutters, and big Hughie helicopters.

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We heard later that President Bush was giving a speech at West Point and that is why all the security

We docked at Garrison Yacht Club and I Introduced Steven to Guinans

Good roast beef eh Steven ? "Mmmmmmmmmmm"

then we sailed north back past Cold Spring and up to Newburg bay to go to Gully's for a few

Docked at Gullys Tidbit was the prettiest boat, not hard to do with all the bayliner company

Ahhh refreshments

Sailing home after having the most amazing fish sandwish form a stand that Steven found we were bathed in that wonderful light that makes all the varnishing worthwile.

[adla]

nice ---- 8)

this is what i am talking about!

8)

a.

[Kidd]

That looks like a great place to sail in the summer time.

[Steven Bauer]

Actually great sailing year round. Since 1790 the Hudson has been a center of serious iceboat sailing.