We have
now been “stuck” here for 11 days awaiting a weather window to get around the
state of New Jersey. “Stuck” is probably
not a good word as we have had a wonderful time. Betty Moran, Jim’s daughter’s mother-in-law
has hosted us several times at her home and country club, and we have gone to
the movies and dinner with her. Since
renting a car we have done major reprovisioning at Total Wine, Costco, and Stop
and Shop and Debby has gotten her long overdue mall fix. On Sunday, Oct 4 we caught up with our friend
from Lauderdale Yacht Club, Malcolm Farrel.
If you have been following this blog you may remember we also got
together on the way north in Georgia.
Malcolm has spent the season just south of here in Mamaroneck and
belongs to the stately and elegant Larchmont Yacht Club where he hosted us to
Sunday Brunch. This club was started in
1880 and much of the original clubhouse is still in use. The brunch was outstanding.
On
the 5th we took the train to NYC and had another rendezvous with our
old industry fiends Al and Dorothy Oliver.
We met in Greenwich Village for a late lunch at the Spotted Pig. After reading great reviews we were disappointed
to find the place had reached its “sell by” date, so to compensate we moved on
to several Irish bars, The Four Liars in the Village and Langans in mid town. After a long, pleasant afternoon and early
evening of reminiscing about our many good times together we finally took the
9PM train back to the boat.
The
weather throughout this time has been cold and windy with night time temps in
the high 40s. We have put the electric
blanket on and gone from A/C to heat and broken out our sweaters and long
pants. We are thankful Joaquin took a
turn to the east, now if the seas will just subside off NJ we will once again
get in the protected waters of the Chesapeake Bay.
