i am on my second watch we're coming into the new york city inlet it is busy
all types of large vessels around waiting to go in ah never really had to deal with such a busy inlet
we just completed an overnight passage from cape may to new york city that's where we're gonna
anchor you ready get ready for some stunning views from a pretty famous anchorage then we're sailing
up the east river through the notorious hell gate along our way to the long island sound we're
passing billy joel's estate plus we're getting slammed by a hurricane are you ready holy crap
welcome to lazy gecko sailing i'm brittany and this is jeremiah
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but everything has gone well nice calm night motor sailing most of the way when winds weren't too
high it's a three-hour shift so we've been doing four-hour shifts that's because jeremiah didn't
fall asleep right away so i just kind of went to my shift a little later and then that set the tone
but i enjoyed a nice hot cup of tea out here
i'm looking forward to be being anchored under this statue of liberty today
it's that groggy time of day but it's time to get excited pulling into new york city
is a bucket list item for us it's gonna be close we're almost hitting this bridge
we've only got 120 feet between us and the bridge
that was pretty sketchy hon
what you see there that's your memory how cool is that here we go ready to get
a selfie yeah i got autopilot heading right for the oh let's take a selfie
we got the selfie don't hit the statue of liberty that'd be bad
there it is none of us have previously been to the statue of liberty
motoring right up to her was such a thrill
it was so nice to sail by as well as inspiring
nothing to do with boating i guess it's just the symbol of freedom it was hard
not to reflect on all the selfless sacrifices it's taken to become the nation that we are
especially while we're so close to the twin towers location it quickly became a somber moment
new york i know it's pretty awesome you got ellis island behind you oh really you redwood we're
gonna anchor you ready i'm so ready to anchor there's an anchorage behind the statue of liberty
right there it's supposed to be really rough and there's another one right here at ellis island
on the other side and so it's a beautiful view so that's what we're going to try to do
right across from manhattan
we cruised around a bit before dropping the hook there's a few spots to anchor
here we wanted a skyline view and the water's supposed to be calm tonight so we had our pick
said i would learn to love the space right behind that water tower you can see the statue of liberty
very pretty yeah it's amazing i feel really fortunate to be here i'm looking forward to
uh sunset which is coming soon and then the city lit up at night this would be awesome
i know i don't know how i'm going to go in and sleep inside i feel like
i have to sleep out here yeah i just came outside right yeah i found my happy place
that's for sure i wish the video was as amazing as it is in person but we'll do our best for you
okay now try a little bit more this way yeah now try to jump over go i'll go after you
tomorrow we'll take a little cruise along the uh the hudson there right along the city line yeah
and then we'll cruise up the river yeah no i'm so excited so stoked there are some things that
you know are interesting to see in new york um so i'm excited to kind of see stuff as long as we go
read about it and you know geek out a little bit but um i'm looking forward to it i thought miami
marine stadium was like crazy background this is insane but not usually buildings like just stand
up when they let up so i'm excited i'm actually gonna go grab my chair and come up here how do
you like it good good anything you want to say about new york um no but i can do some jumping all
right let's do some job yeah where was i at for my mommy said to jump i don't know but go ahead
sick we just hung out for the evening good company lovely views this was pretty perfect
no way it's your own chair kid chairs are a hit bella yeah i mean i
told you for the longest time don't don't get them don't spend the money
five years later you just got them and i love em this anchorage is very exposed
it gets really rolly at times we were so fortunate to have a calm window for a night
enjoy beautiful sunset huh it's gorgeous it's like a painting it's like
beautiful streaks of pink and white
is this normal i don't know is this normal i don't know
you hear a lot of negativity going around about new york city right now
but from here in this spot you can't hear a sound the sun was down it was time to hit the rack
oh did you know that we installed the surveillance video system
all through calypso we're excited to add a new angle to our video series
we're at anchorage right across from manhattan as you can see here we're right here this is
manhattan right here so our next move is to cruise up the east river going towards long island sound
now this area right here is notoriously like really bad for current so you have to
time it right and you need to go with the current otherwise you'll end up going like two knots over
ground street over ground so and uh and also you go through an area called hell gate and apparently
the currents can be really bad in there so what we are doing is we're just waiting for the tides to
shift right now if you track right at manhattan it's at low tide and it's going to start coming
up soon now these are a little these are always a little bit like off the an avionics chart goes off
of um like historical data it's always off this is the noaa site i found this to be a little bit
more accurate we'll see what's going on right here this is saying it's still coming this way
we're still at slack and usually you want to wait till about well i like to wait two hours
after slack before i go so i think i was well i was thinking about doing is taking a cruise
up the hudson on like a coffee cruise you want to do that this morning like a morning
coffee on the bow cruise sunrise cruise let's do it yeah because we can go cruise
you know get out of the anchorage cruise up the hudson a little bit and take our time with it
waiting for the currents to start going and then uh you know have your coffee and everything then
we'll come back down and cruise up these rivers everything goes good sounds perfect
cruising along the city was so cool it was sweet to see reece respond to
the tall buildings reaching for the sky they seemed to be touching it
this is brooklyn brooklyn this is where
notorious b.i.g was from oh man i'm surprised you're not playing his music i put it on instagram
we are on the east river there's a part right here
where it splits you got to take the one of the left
you got to go left because the one on the right has a 40 foot bridge after this one
you don't want to be screwing around with the current trying to turn around i can't believe how
like i know new york is massive but from this perspective it's like blown away huge
yeah and i can smell like different parts as we go by good ones are bad
well back there when we pulled anchor it was really bad and this actually smells pretty good
are you pregnant it's not that clean
3 000 miles from home trying to say
it wasn't long before we reached the dreaded part of the river hellgate it's famous for
dangerous currents whirlpools and more even causing shipwrecks before the city
blew it sky high to open it up it's a cool topic to research if you get the chance
we are coming into hell gate at one point there was a 10 knot current in here it is now they
did um it's man-made and they were able to do some reconstructing to bring it down to five
not current in here fortunately it wasn't too bad just some cross currents
we kept our hand on the helm and we got through just fine
it's a nice calm morning leaving our anchorage for these beautiful
sailboat's all moored up and we're passing billy joel's estate right now
piano man
i felt the boat swaying back and forth i was like what is going on we got somebody
else driving the boat yeah he's going on he has a compass heading he's following
60 60 6-0 i felt the boat going back and forth i'm like what you thought was perfect straight
doing a good job breathe
this is turning away from 60. captain reece so thank you
thank you we're uh oh we're in a crab pop minefield uh we're kind of zigzagging here
have fun yeah good oh i like hit the camera keep it on 60.
hello hi i was just about to go through the preparing for the hurricane to pull
into a marina just uh brittany had like a doctor visit like a checkup and this
hurricane showed up and we figured we'd stay it was like we're gonna leave today
we're like well we'll just stay it's a good floating dock marina it's got um brand new docks
we tied the boat off we pulled a bunch of stuff off the boat it's looking like we're gonna get
about 65 knots this storm it landed in like south carolina as a hurricane it's still a tropical
storm but it i mean it went down to a tropical storm but it isn't really reducing as far as winds
because of some weather pattern so we're expecting some high winds so we're going to relax here
and ride it out on the boat um you know i don't expect to have to do too much holy crap
coming up on the lazy geckos
if it lets loose it's going to probably plummet into our boat
well today's the big day i'm excited to get to the boat today and move on i'm
passing by calypso north carolina they look like they have little peanut butter luck on
your first cruising adventure thank you got an uber to get some groceries and we
saw this cute little artist down there doing a great job there honey thank you
oh back door i guess you can go to the bathroom you ready for this no they were under the bow
already vhf antenna firmly mounted it's all burned up in here i guess we won't be leaving
early everything's so small you can't freaking read it are you right in front of us it's gone
don't take me back you can't take me back
and turn north and probably put out the head tail nice and smooth
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