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Eric Russell's avatar

I had an encounter with fog one night. We were leaving the Clearwater festival at Croton Point on the Hudson River. One of our people HAD to be back by Monday morning for a hearing. Needless to say, our batteries had gone flat and, even though we could get the engine going, the systems were not charging or powering up. As were in the Palisades, every so often, one of us would blow a horn and listen for the echo so we could stay in the channel. After we passed under the George Washington Bridge, the fog cleared enough and we got a bit of breeze.

With a cooperative tide, we sailed down to Raritan Bay and, as the fog had returned, we decided to anchor just out of the ship channel. When we awoke early, we saw the most defined squall line I have ever seen bearing down on us. After checking the anchor, we all went below until it passed. Somehow the battery bank then resurrected itself and we were able to motor into our slip in Great Kills.

PS, the lawyer got to court on time.

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Michael Moore's avatar

Great adventure, well told!

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