Day 366
Having completely changed course, we began our journey back southward on the Hudson River from Shady Harbor to Kingston, NY, on Saturday morning, 09/11/21. It felt a bit odd abandoning what felt like our new ‘home marina’ after such a lengthy stay there. The river waters were mildly choppy in the moderate winds that greeted us that morning, and that wind was chilly. Steve mentioned he’d seen online that the night before’s low was only 49 degrees. 😐 Passing the Shady Harbor Marina office, we noticed the big maple tree in front was turning orange. Fall had definitely arrived in the northeast! As we watched the marina growing smaller and smaller in Legacy’s wake, we realized we’d just spent 7 FULL WEEKS in this one place. What the ?? 😐
Our cruising air that morning was clear and crisp, and the trees along the Hudson River banks were just beginning to change color. The forests were still mainly green, but now had small pops of yellow and orange scattered within them. In fact, the weather was so much clearer this day, we felt like we were traveling new territory, as the scenery was so much more vivid this time.
As we passed back through the majestic Catskill Mountains, I marveled again how I’d never realized the mountains in New York were so large. Once again, but from the other direction, we cruised past Stuyvesant, Coxsackie, Athens, Hudson, and Catskill, NY, all of which had been our land-based stomping grounds over the past seven weeks during our stay at Shady Harbor.
As the morning progressed, the winds intensified to the point that we were cruising through white-caps on the Hudson River, as we passed West Camp, Malden, and Saugerties, then Glasco, Barrytown, and Annandale On Hudson, NY. Next came the Saugerties Lighthouse and the NY Highway 199 bridge.
As we passed the town of Kingston, the Kingston Lighthouse was to our starboard as we turned west into the mouth of Rondout Creek, where Kingston City Marina is located, just a few hundred feet west of the Hudson River Maritime Museum Marina, where we’d stayed several months back, on our trip northward.
We arrived at Kingston City Marina around 1:45 pm and were instructed to tie-up to their transient wall on our starboard side. The facilities at this marina are not as nice as some, but we were right there in town, just steps away from shops, bars, and restaurants.
Once secured, settled, and showered, we walked down to Ole Savannah restaurant for dinner and noticed Kingston is much busier on a Saturday night, than it was during the week back in July. 🙂
Position: N 41° 55.70, W 73° 58.950
Distance traveled: 41 SM
Total distance traveled: 4445 SM
Total marina nights: 342
Total nights at anchor: 23
Locks today: 0
Locks Total: 28