Slobro was very keen to put up on the blog the map of the world he has on the wall of our cabin. Every morning he has carefully put a dot on where we are and joined it with a line and a number, being days away. The dot is a bit approximate as it is only an average map and a few bits of the world are missing. He is quite proud of it and is wondering which wall to put it up on back home. Homealone is sure there will be plenty of advice offered in that regard.

It was a cloudy sail off down the Hudson River past lower Manhattan out into New York Harbour.

Many were on deck to wave to the iconic Statue of Liberty. It doesn’t take long to then sail up past Staten Island and under the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge into the Atlantic Ocean. It’s a double decker road bridge, 7 lanes on top and 6 underneath, maybe the other way around.

Verrazzano was an Italian navigator, serving under France, and in 1524 was the first European to enter the Harbour. The bridge is a little eerie in the evening mist and cloud.

New York was the end of Stage 3 of the cruise which had started back in Dover. The final stage back home to Brisbane first takes us down the east coast of America then through the Caribbean Sea, passing between Cuba and Haiti, before reaching the Panama Canal and into the Pacific. The course through the Caribbean in the map above is not the way we went, the loop is too far east. It takes four days at sea to reach the Canal and the next blog report covering the crossing to the Pacific.