NYC from the sky

Jumped in a helicopter and went for a spin around Manhattan - enjoyed that. Then went to a hot dog cart and had probably my 20th hot dog for the week - enjoyed that too.

Ears: Loon Lake

Can you spot the boat?

Light up.

A few photo's from our home for the week - North Cove Marina, Manhattan. Literally a block from the World Trade Centre Site.

Ears: Bloc Party

Our neighbours - Hugo Boss - doing their sponsorship stuff for the week before Alex hit off across the Atlantic.

Crowd was normal

Literally 7 days of this! 

Hoboken

NYC from the Water

Here are a few photo's of New York from the water, and no I didn't do one of those ferry tours, these are just from the boat.

After we made it through the bridge (previous post), we actually got clearance from the Harbourmaster to anchor off Liberty Island, and in doing so became the first yacht since 9/11 to do so!

I took the opportunity to get up early for and take some photos of new York waking up, and of course to have some one on one time with Madame Liberty.

Ears: Postal Service

How close were we?

The city awakening

There would have been around 3kts of current flowing down the Hudson when we woke.

Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges

Uptown

Had to do it.

Getting ready to up anchor and go in to Manhattan

Didn't take long for the ferries to start up!

Financial District

Depth vs. Height

Being on a boat, everybody knows that you need a certain amount of water to float on, hence allowing you to move. Through the annals of history many vessels have been grounded, stranded, or even lost due to the lack of beneath them.

Being on a yacht that draws about 5m (17ft) you do have to be careful with where you go. 

However this post is not concerned about depth, this post is looking at what is above the water; Zefira's 65m (213ft) mast and the Verrazano Narrows Bridge that guards the Hudson River and the city of New York.

We left Newport at 6am on a Friday with the aim of hitting (actually that's a poor choice of words, let's say arriving to) the Verrazano Narrows at the 6:30pm low water mark. A few delays, as well as picking up the pilot for the ride in meant we didn't reach the bridge until just after 9pm.

Even though we did all the numbers, and triple-checked everything that it was going to be sweet, the heart still skipped a few beats as the illusion of hitting the bridge at the third spreader became ever so realistic!

Here are some photo's of the delivery and the trip under the bridge, we had about 2m (6ft) to spare (less than 5% for the geeks). But as you can see it looks a lot closer than that, especially considering it is a curved bridge and that is at the absolute centre! 

I also put some photos in of the trip out of the bridge, these ones may be a bit better as the second time around wasn't so hair raising. On the way out we went under the bridge right on the midnight low - which gave us about 3m (9ft) to spare.

I know i have said it before, but the Gateway bridge in Brisbane has a clearance underneath it of 55m (180ft) that gives you a scale of what we are dealing with.

Enjoy!

Ears: We were promised jet packs.

Yes the was Lightning and thunder.

Cam

The Pilot and Federico

Verrazano Narrows Bridge

I like this photo

Lining up for final approach

About the time we all started bricking it.

Yep

Leaving at midnight.

See you in August VZ!