Almost to NYC

So after a great weekend on Cape Cod with more than 600 people touring the ship and giving my presentation on global warming what felt like 600 times, we are currently off of Block Island, RI heading for the Big Apple. It is 11:00pm on Tuesday night.

We will pick up a pilot at about midnight, who will take us to an anchorage in Oyster Bay on Long Island where we will do a press conference with out renewable energy allies who have proposed an offshore wind farm just off Jones Beach. We should arrive by about 9:30 in the morning. We will run a couple of hours of public tours, do the press conference at 12:30 and then head for our berth at Chelsea Pier. The arrival should be great. We will come down the east river from Long Island Sound, passing the U.N. and going under the Brooklyn Bridge.

Dinner tonight was again amazing. Great steak, salad, and potatoes, and then for dessert … drum roll please …. chocolate soufflé. The seas were particularly choppy during dinner, and ever couple of minutes all of the plates on the mess tables would slide in one direction or another, It was a bit of challenge trying to grab bites of your meal as it went sliding down the table.

I was told today that on the transit from New York to Miami we will put the RIBs in the water and do some training. I am really looking forward to that, because after all the RIBs trips we have been making ferrying people out the ship for tours, I have not yet taken a ride.

More to follow soon