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boatingonthehudson.com
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Ralph J. Ferrusi
T
ruth be told,
I’m basically a land-lubber:
hikin’ and bikin’ and climbing up and down
mountains, from the Hudson Highlands to the
Alps to the Himalaya. Boots on the ground
notwithstanding, I’ve always felt very natural
in boats: able to read, and “feel”, the boat, the
water, the current, and the waves. On bigger
boats—whether that big whale-watcher in
absurdly rough seas off Montauk, that spiffy
catamaran off the west coast of Saint Lucia (A
Single Drop of Water, Boating on the Hudson
and Beyond, February/March 2016, pp. 20-23),
ferries: Cape May/the Saint Lawrence/Lake