Chris Steingraber

Tow of Frers 55 from Oyster Bay to Jersey City. Was able to tow under motor, under motor sailing and while under full sail alone on the tow vessel Pearson 10M. Fought current entering the East River and made it to the minute perfect timing for 9:08pm slack current at Hell Gate so that was a hige success in the navigational planning and timing. Communicated with commercial traffic within the East River to announce and agree on passings. Arrived safely and dropped the anchor North of Ellis Island.

A beautiful last leg of a two week sailing trip that began in Palermo. On this leg we left Anti Paxos and arrived at Preveza where we fueled up and then moored at the city front berths.

we left the Strait of Messina with a prediction of 15kts expected but the wind supposed to arrive almost a day later arrived early and we were in 25kts gusting to 35 with a building sea for 43 hours across the Ionian Sea. We had left Italy where fires were blazing across the landscape and ashes falling on the deck with 100-110degree weather as helicopters and airplanes scooped water to control the fires and arrived in Paxos, a lovely place with beautiful water, beaches and food to enjoy.