A Glorious Passage

After a glorious passage of 400 miles in three days we reached NYC. We left Deep Creek in the Dismal Swamp in VA on the 25th of April. Stopped in Norfolk for fuel and then went off shore into the Atlantic Ocean. On the 26th of April we stopped in at Cape May NJ for fuel, water and fresh fish from the Lobster House. These were three days of perfect sea conditions. The winds and the swells were from the south east and we rarely saw more then 15 knots and most of the time they were ten or less. Not good for sailing but I am a fair weather sailor and would rather motor then be nervous about winds that are too strong. We did have both head sail and main sail up for some time. This made up for the four miles of gale force winds in the Albemarle Sound that we had to deal with.
When going under the George Washington Bridge on the right is a little red lighthouse. It's the Jeffery's Hook Lighthouse in Washington Park . I've seen it a few times and thought it was so cute. I've since learned the story behind the lighthouse. There is a children's book where the lighthouse is encouraged by the bridge to continue to provide a beacon to the river, but in real life the bridge makes the lighthouse obsolete. In 1947 the lighthouse was deactivated but the children spoke up and kept it from being demolished. The book is written by Hildegard H Swift.