Port
Washington has various
marinas and lots of moored boats but we were also lucky that there is lots of
space to anchor so we dropped anchor and spent a few days getting back to all
the normal boat jobs and the inevitable things that have gone wrong with
Magnum. One of these jobs was Mark
servicing the Auto Pilot that had decided to back up!
It was quite funny being in
a new very yachty place for the weekend, we had a huge number of local boats
sail way too close, why? because they want to have a better look at Magnum!
The main reason our stay was
to be so long in Port Washington was Harriet
and Abbie were coming to visit for the week, so we had arranged a berth at
Brewers Capri marina. The staff here
were really friendly and because the economy is having a hit on their business
we got a really good deal. The girls
were keen to see New York
and from here we could catch the bus to the train station and then the Long
Island Railway into the city. So we repeated the tourist trail with visits to
Time Square, Central Park, Macys, Chelsea
Market, Grand Central Station, Staten Island Ferry and anywhere the girls
fancied visiting.
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| Mark, Abbie and Harriet in Times Square |
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| Mark and girls on the bridge in Central Perk from the Elf snowball fight! |
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| Enjoying a sit down at Chelsea Market |
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| A busy Times Square |
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| Grand Central Station |
We also had a hire car for
the day and headed out to see some of Long Island, the girls were as impressed
as us with the beautiful houses that are everywhere on Long
Island. We were lucky that
the sun was still shining and we had a picnic at Huntington Beach.
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| Enjoying a picnic |
We were keen to move on once
the girls had left but unfortunately we had a another boat problem and were
awaiting a part. The bolt that holds the
engine and the saildrive together had snapped so they were no longer held in
place, Mark managed to put a very temporary fix in place so we could leave the
marina but we then sat at anchor and waited for the part for almost a
week. During this time we did get a few
more maintenance jobs done on the boat, Mark spent an entire day removing the
pegs holding the teak deck together, drilled them out where necessary and then
replaced with new pegs. A soul
destroying job as a small area takes such a long time to complete.
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| If you look closely you can see the pegs poking our on the starboard side of the deck |
We were also able to get off
the boat and use the bikes to visit Sandy Point Preserve. This was previously the Guggenhiem Estate and
was donated initially to the Navy in the 1940s but Nassau County
bought this from the them in the 1960s and additional land was donated by the
Guggenhiems in the 1970s. There are 3 mansions within the 200+ acre estate
although we only visited the grounds, only 1 of the mansions is open to the
public although they are no longer occupied.
The grounds are very pretty and they are along the shoreline of Long Island, a spectacular place to live, in an equally
spectacular property.
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| One amazing house |
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| Mark enjoying the sunshine |
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| Pretty gardens |
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| Amazing house number 2 |
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