[quote=jalex]Ctcataman, I wouldn't be shy about exploring the East River, it's really improved over the past few decades, traffic isn't nearly as bad as the Hudson and the barges and Ferrys move predictably. Make sure and sail by North Brother Island, you're not supposed to go on shore but it has an old hospital that I'm sure has to be haunted, also Hart Island has a creepy cemetery, you are allowed to make landfall on.
As far as stories, I fell off my Hobie 16 a few miles out, the main sheet got looped around the tiller and the boat sailed away in perfect trim, luckily it was the day before a windsurfing race and their were people out training, a flagged a windsurfer down,it took a few tries apparently because he thought I was a scuba diver. He had me sit
in a ball on the front of his board and got me to shore. By this point the boat was well out on the horizon. A man with an older model Irwin 24 offered to help me get it, but there was no way an old mono with an outboard was going to catch it. I decided I was going to call it a loss and go home and let the coasties know. At this point the whole beach knew what was going on, the marine patrol showed up and put me on their center console. We went wave jumping a few miles out, caught up to the boat, still in perfect trim. They matched their speed on the windward side and I jumped on. Sailed back on a setting sun. Got back to the beach at dark, pulled it up, dropped the sails and went home like nothing happend. I have never been able to get the boat to self steer as well as it did that day.[/quote]
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