Coney Island, New York

In order to catch the outgoing tide, we delayed leaving our Glimmer Glass anchorage until 10 a.m. on Thursday, August 20.  We alerted the bridge tender and were on our way for a five hour cruise to New York.

It was a beautiful day on the water. The seas were calm and there wasn’t a lot of boat traffic until we got close to New York (of course).

We decided to try a new area to anchor this time and found one called Gravesend Bay in Coney Island.  Neither of us had ever been to Coney Island and we didn’t even realize it was in Brooklyn!  By 3 p.m. we found what looked to be a great spot with really good reviews and a great view of the Verrazanno-Narrows Bridge.  So we settled in comfortably and did our usual routine of family phone calls and dinner.

After it got dark, Jonny decided to go to bed early and it was then that the tide turned and began beating very uncomfortably against our aft cabin which is where we sleep.  Ever since we had dropped the hook he had been fretting over whether we should have gone further into the bay where it would be less choppy.  Well, now we had no choice as it would have been impossible to sleep under the present conditions. So Jonny put on his clothes and took out a flashlight, hoisted the anchor and onward we went through a very dark and skinny channel that got so shallow that we bumped the bottom! Fortunately we plowed through and entered a nice little calm bay where we dropped the hook once again.  Looming on the perimeter were some dark shapes but it looked like we were in a safe spot overall.  We were now able to go to bed and sleep peacefully.