Today we say goodbye to the town of Kingston, NY and prepare to set sail down the Hudson to reach Poughkeepsie, NY by evening....but first.... we enter Eclipse into a sailing race being hosted by the Kingston Sailing Club. We find ourselves to NOT be anywhere close to racing class with Eclipse and certainly towing our dinghy behind did not help matters much! It was still fun to sail with the gang that we met ad hung out with at the party yesterday and when the downwind leg started and the majority of the fleet raided spinnakers (see photo's below), we called it quits and headed on down the river as we had many miles to make before end of day.
The day was spent battling wind that was coming straight at us from down the river. This meant that we had to tack (zig-zag) back and forth countless times in order to make our way south to Poughkeepsie. I pulled together a home-made Chili for dinner and Gary baked some banana bread for desert
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| Racing "Eclipse" with the Kingston Sailing Club |
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| Spinnakers up for the downwind leg! Wait! We don't have a spinnaker!!! |
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| One of the many beautiful lighthouses on the Hudson River. Catskill Mountains in the background |
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| The "Clearwater" under sail north of Poughkeepsie |
What town is this, I think I know
T'is Kingston town you should know
Under billowing sails we depart from
here
On down the Hudson we do go
Our little boat, by us is steered
To join a sailing race that's here
Between the buoys and starting gate
The slowest boat we were I fear
Over waters whipped and winds that
shake
Our boat heels steeply for goodness
sake
The other boats within the fleet
move out, for the lead they take
The Hudson is lovely, deep and blue
But we have miles and promises to keep
And miles to sail before we are through
And miles to sail before we are through
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