September 3 - 8 -- Mostly Living Aboard with One Day Sail and One Work Day

Having returned to our home mooring on September 2, we did not decamp with the kitties until the Seventh. The day sail was with Tom and Marie and a very pleasant one. We served my cold stone fruit soup with yogurt and with store bought hero sandwiches for lunch and then sailed for about 2.5 hours in the afternoon when the wind built. We sailed under main and small jib and got good speeds of around seven for a lot of the time with a peak of 8.0. We went about two miles past Execution Rocks before tacking to head back, after which the only two tacks were near the the coast of Hart Island and of Long Island. Back on the mooring, a social hour and dinner at the Club on interesting dishes: 

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Lene had Paella but with crispy Chinese noodles rather than rice and I had Tikki Masala but with cauliflower and chick peas rather than with chicken. Sunset from the Harlem's deck where the food is served during the pandemic.

The work day was the last and for once I actually got everything on my list done -- in less than four hours: replacing the vertical cafe screen doors with the heavy horizontal plexiglass New York ones, wire tying a  plastic noodle to the central part of the mooring pennant so it will float, changing the engine's lube oil and filter without making much of a mess and  properly disposing of the waste oil, getting the fuel in the lines of the outboard burned out and that motor to the dock,to a cart and then to the upstairs locker and dragging the dink to the seawall and getting it out of the water and onto the lawn (at high tide) for removal to atop the Club's dinghy rack by fork lift later. A pleasant satisfying day.

Much of each of the other days was spent off the boat, but returning each night to feed the kitties and sleep aboard. Lene had a dental appointment and I got a haircut. We shopped and cooked, went through the mail, ordered filters, played miniature golf and shot skeet in New Jersey with Ken and Mendy, had work done on the car, visited Sid and Jan at their home in NJ and lazed around on the boat a lot, though we did do about an hour and a half of cleaning after breakfast on the day we departed at 11:30 am.