2016 08 04 Thursday - Haverstraw, NY

Today is “friend day.” Ellen and Danny Galligan, good friends who live in New City, about five miles from the marina will join us in the afternoon. Danny and Ellen also worked with us at IBM and rent a unit in our building in Florida during the winter. Best of all, they were born in the Bronx, so we can reminisce and bore Bert to death with questions like “do you remember this place, that person, this parish, that school……”)



Kalmar Nyckel from the Haverstraw Marina Pool

With a morning to while away, we head to the pool at the marina. What great fortune! There are only three people there, one of them a lifeguard, the second, her boyfriend. The pool overlooks the Hudson. Looking out we see a very old sailing ship coming up the river. At the very same time, we receive a text from Danny telling us to be on the lookout for the Sailing Ship Kalmar Nyckel. It is a reproduction of the ship sailed by Peter Minuit in the 1600’s in settling the Delaware valley.

 


Sailing Ship at Cold Spring, NY
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 Danny and Ellen arrive around 2:00 and once again we head upriver. Except for a tray of chips and salsa flying off the dinette, we have a pleasant ride. The Galligans have destroyed all chances of avoiding sweets on this trip. They bring a big box of biscotti and a large apple crumb cake. We’re doomed. To top it off, they also bring us a bottle of Sapphire gin that they won’t drink. Wow! We head up to Newburgh, NY and catch up, close and personal with the Kalmar Nyckel.




Kalmar Nyckel at Newburgh, NY

Once off the boat, the Galligans take us to a little bistro in Tappan called Giostra. We have what is our best meal of the trip. A great stop. We drive back to the boat and bid our farewells. This is our final day in Haverstraw and we will now begin the junket back to the Cape.

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