View from ferry - leaving New London, CT
A 1936 Ford Woodie from Long Island, NY showed up on Ebay. Chris was pretty interested in it, but he wanted to see the car before he bought it. Not unusual, as it's an expensive purchase, and pictures can only tell part of the story. So, we decided to go to Long Island on Saturday. It's a pretty easy trip - drive to New London, CT and take a ferry to Long Island. Fortunately, the car owner lived near the ferry terminal, so he had a friend, that was helping him sell the car, pick us up at the ferry.
Ferry crossing - waves were small, but made the boat rock pretty good at times:
The remnants of Hurricane Ida were affecting us that day - torrential downpour at times. We couldn't take the car out for a test drive, but Chris wasn't too concerned. He mainly wanted to check the underneath, and that was easy to do in the garage. A very nice garage too - old car photos on the walls, and Coca Cola coolers on shelves. This was definitely a 'non car guy' garage though: only one toolbox that didn't look very used and no car grime anywhere.
Alas, the car was not up to Chris' standards - floors had been replaced. And it looked like it didn't fit the chassis anymore, meaning it was probably on a different chassis - not the original. It was still a good trip, and was nice meeting new people. The owner lives on an inlet - look at this view...
Our ferry ride back to New London was uneventful - a lot of people coming and going. The rain had let up, it was now mostly windy. Our car ride home went smoothly too. We got home in time to change clothes, and meet our neighbors for dinner. Fortunately they drove, since Chris had been driving most of the day.
View from Ferry - Long Island side: the dock was so small, we thought we were docking on the beach! And the ferry was over 100 feet long!
The rest of the weekend was cloudy but in the 60's. We met our triathlon club for a trail run on Sunday morning. Then we went on a 2 hour mountain bike ride - mostly road, but some forest trails.
Since I get us too involved, Chris always says, we had a dilemma on Sunday evening. A triathlon club meeting & yacht club meeting were at the exact same time and in different towns. Chris went to the fun triathlon meeting where he heard some experienced triathletes talk about their Ironman experience. I went to the yacht club meeting, as I was being voted onto the audit committee. It was the annual meeting, so they discussed the past year's projects, racing programs, and 2010 budget. There were a lot of members attending, so it was fun to catch up with some I haven't seen in a while.
our yacht club:
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