9:21 ET 5/10/09

If ever there was a perfect weather window, we were in it. We escaped the Atlantic just in the nick of time. Woke today at the Tappanzee Bridge to 50 degress and NORTH winds blowing 25-30 knots. Had we still been in the ocean, it would have been a repeat of the horrible conditions of last September. We hoped to make it to Castleton by dark tonight, but with the winds on our nose, we will instead have to anchor somewhere south of there. Tomorrow we'll arrive at Castleton Marina and begin the mast-unstepping.