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horns and fog bells all night
Sept 21 (Sunday) Hazy and sultry weather. Hundreds [[underlined in red]] perhaps thousands [[/underlined in red]] of [[underlined in red]] visitors from New York. [[/underlined in red]] Then lunch baskets, and in sports outfit. arrive along Palisade Park by way of Dyckman street Ferry. [[underlined in red]] George Perkins and his colleagues [[/underlined in red]] certainly did a [[underlined in red]] great work in opening [[/underlined in red]] the Palisades. Some got there as early as 7 A.M. After coffee began to try the engine to locate [[?]] on for hot cylinder finally went near shore James waded in tried to dislodge [[strikethrough]] q [[/strikethrough]] barnacles around intake of pump. [[/underlined in red]] because pump, exhausts streaming hot water. This did not help so
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we examined check valves Found intake check valve fouled by broken spring, this ended our troubles went Thru Spuyten Orinel 3 P.M and anchored between [[underlined in red]] City Island and Hart Island [[/underlined in red]] at 5 P.M. Engine worked perfectly.
Sept 22. Left about noon for [[underlined in red]] Oyster [[/underlined in red]] Bay. Excellent anchorage. At low tide got by [[underlined in red]] mussels [[/underlined in red]] and [[underlined in red]] excellent oysters [[/underlined in red]] at point. Beautiful Bay.
Sept 23. Rainy weather. Afternoon went out in power dinghy exploring further branches of the Bay. under the Bridge. Then more rain
[[strikethrough]] Sept 24. Much rain last night and all day used time to fix things up. Evening went for more 
Sept 25 Beautiful day. [[/strikethrough]] Used the time for fixing up things on the boat