2025 Images
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The Mystic River from Seaport Marine in the very early hours of the morning
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While in Mystic, we had Skipper groomed at MY FETCHING HOUND
Thank you Christine, Tara, Sarah & Tamar - www.myfetchinghound.com
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Yacht Ingot video
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The Bascule Bridge video
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Skipper's new toy video
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Skipper looking regal
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The Bascule Bridge raised
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Fish made mostly from flatware
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This house, built on a rock, can be seen from all over Mystic
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Just before sunrise, the Mystic River at Seaport Marine is mirror like
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Greetings from Mystic
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Skipper working on his table manners
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Our Seaport Marine slip
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Duck on a mooring
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Delamar Hotel Mystic
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Across the river
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Mystic River traffic video
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Aphrodite
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The first four image were taken from the Mystic River Bascule Bridge.
You can begin to make out the flybridge of CROSSRUFF in the center of each.
The map shows the distance from which the two the sets of images were taken.
The last four images were taken from the flybridge of CROSSRUFF zooming out
from the exact location on the bridge where the first four images were taken.
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CROSSRUFF from inside Daniel Packer Inne and the window from which it was taken.
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With all these ominous storm clouds all around us, we barely got a few drops of rain
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Be sure to duck video
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Passing Sabino video
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Back to CROSSRUFF video
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Sunset over the Mystic River and Bascule Bridge
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The Charles W Morgan
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Water Street walkway
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Mystic loves to put stuff on rocks
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Across the Mystic River
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Yacht Brilliant
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Moon over Mystic
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Yacht Annastar video
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They mean STOP video
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Our flybridge view video
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Skipper outside Red 36 Restaurant
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Across the Mystic River
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Sunrise in and around Seaport Marine
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Evening on the Mystic River
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Skipper has become quite the "boat dog" loving rides in the Boston Whaler
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Walking around Seaport Marine's docks
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From the Mystic River
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Zooming in on CROSSRUFF from Borrows Place across the Mystic River
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Mystic River Park
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Amtrak Railroad Bridge
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Sabino
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Bird McMansion
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Got my ducks in a row
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Ferris Bueller's actual car
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Aerial tour of Mystic video
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Arial image of Mystic River
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A gazebo on the rocks
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Bascule Bridge opening video
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Long walk to our slip
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Rob returns video
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Sunrise over and around us at Seaport Marine
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Rob takes the Whaler video
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Acela video
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ARGIA at the bridge video
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Downtown Mystic Marina
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Main Street Mystic
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Whaler Inn's mascot
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Settled in
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Bascule bridge
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That's a big rock
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Our slip at Seaport Marine, Mystic, CT
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OK. I'm awake now
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Groton Long Point
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A lot going on here
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MarineTraffic.com tracking us using the Automatic Identification System
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Smooth sailing
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Really big barge
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I'm exhausted
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Off to Mystic, CT
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So long Port Jefferson
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Images from in and around Port Jefferson YAcht Club
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Port Jeff Yacht Club video
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Their floating docks video
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Leave no wake video
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Goodbye Manhasset Bay video
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Hello party boat video
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Hello Aphrodite video
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North Shore Towers
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Crowded marina
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CROSSRUFF
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Who let the dogs out video
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Returning from dinner video
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Manhasset Bay Marina
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CROSSRUFF
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A Skipper needs to be on the bow
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Happy Birthday Allie
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Dramatic skies over Manhasset Bay Marina
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Video views of Manhasset Bay Yacht Club's fireworks from our slip in Manhasset Bay Marina
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Skipper with his BFF Oliver
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Rob & Skipper
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Skipper looking regal
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Images from CROSSRUFF's slip in Manhasset Bay Marina
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Manhasset Bay rainbow
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Sailboat pride flags
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Skipper & Oliver
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Manhasset Bay Y.C. video
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Arriving at M.B.Y.C. video
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The pool at M.B.Y.C.
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Manhasset Bay sunrise video
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Aerial images of Manhasset Bay Marina
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We celebrated Rob's birthday at Manhasset Bay Yacht Club
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Our ride home from video
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Skipper's first picnic
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We've settled in and the signal flags are flying
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Skipper seems to approve our seasonal slip in Manhasset Bay Marina
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Images from our very first night in Manhasset Bay Marina
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We arrived at Manhasset Bay Marina in Port Washington
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Images from our trip bast Brooklyn, into New York Harbor and up the East River
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Skipper learns that being a skipper can be exhausting
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I'm ready for a boat ride
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Skipper's very first time in the ocean
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Skipper loves his view
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Skipper found a rabbit
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Skipper's license plate
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We were back in the water in no time
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Skipper's license plate
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Our annual haul out at Shellfish Marine
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Flowers on board. Skipper photobombed the anthurium
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Higan cherry tree
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Three fishing boats
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The Kimberly Hotel boat
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West Avenue dock
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Skipper loves his couch time
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On watch
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Skipper vs caution tape video
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Good morning
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What now
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Road trip
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So many toys
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Rob and Skipper
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A happy puppy
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Skipper loves latex toys
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Skipper's favorite
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Three more videos of Skipper as he gets a little bigger
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We were very pleased with Skipper's very first grooming
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Some images of the Fire Island Pines beach replenishment project
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Skipper side eye
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That face
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Another video
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Three more videos of Skipper doing what puppies do best
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Skipper is growing day by day and still very much a puppy
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Three videos of Skipper settling into his forever home
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Skipper was born on 11/1/2024 and joined the pack on CROSSRUFF ON 1/5/2025
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We took a backstage tour of the Metropolitan Opera
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Then we brought Skipper home
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2024 Images
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Merry Christmas to all and to all a geed night.
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On December 10, 2024, Douglas & Rob celebrated 39 years together
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Nightime in the Boat Basin
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Fire Island lights in the distance
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Douglas & Rob's anniversary
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At The Metropolitan Opera for dinner at Grand Tier and a performance of TOSCA
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Douglas' braces are finally off
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The comet Atlas
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Fire Island Lighthouse
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New radar being installed on CROSSRUFF
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Images taken in and around West Sayville Boat Basin
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The sun setting over The Great South Bay
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More water please
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The table is set
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I found the way
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Au revoir Fire Island Pines
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All tucked in our slip in WEst Sayville
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The hotel demolition began the day we left Fire Island Pines
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Commorants resting in Fire Island Pines Harbor
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Fire Island walk name costumes
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Moonrise over the harbor
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Things are winding down
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Halloween decorations in and around Fire Island Pines
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Fire Island Boulevard has sections with tons of bamboo trees
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The northern lights from Fire Island Pines
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Coast Guard Walk
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Ferry dock at night
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A stowaway onboard
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Deer in the harbor
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Rob and Douglas
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Harbor piles
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Just three of the many beautiful gardens in Fire Island Pines
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Belvedere Hotel
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Meet Shadow who found her forever home in Amity Harbor
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Meet Bubba the Blood Parrot Cichlid
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Hello deer
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Cormorant drying wings
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Late night in Fire Island Pines harbor
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Leaving Shinnecock
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Tea dance inside
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Tea dance outside
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Bay sunset
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Pines harbor sunset
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Causeway sunset
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Lightning over Long Island
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Lightning over the ocean
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Rainbow over Pines Harhor
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Flowers on Ocean Walk
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The moon over the ocean
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Reflections on the water
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As evening falls on Fire Island Pines Harbor looking towards the Great South Bay
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Art imitating life
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Harbor images under a full moon
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The Fire Island Pines Flamingos last installation
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Atlantic Walk at night
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The moon over the ocean
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Me and my shadow
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Video
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Some great evening shots in and around Fire Island Pines Harhor
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Two videos of us arriving and docking in Fire Island Pines
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The moon over the ocean
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A dolphin jumping our wake
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Fire Island Lighthouse
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Seaview - Hi Dave & Jodi
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We had to pass Fire Island Pines in the ocean to get to Fire Island Pines' harbor
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Davis Park Casino
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Water Island
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Passing FI Pines video
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We departed Oakland's into perfectly calm seas
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Evening shot of CROSSRUFF
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Sunrise at Oakland's
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Our slip at Oakland's Marina
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Shinnecock sunset
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We returned to Oakland's Marina on our way home. Thank you Tosh
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Large yacht in the distance
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Montauk Houses on the cliff
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Listen carefully video
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Montauk Lighthouse
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Our wake
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Why three shots of Race Rock Lighthouse? Notice the New London Ferry in the background
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Groton Long Point - We were married in the next to last house in the rightmost photo
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The three individual houses located on Mouse Island
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Goodbye Noank Shipyard
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Hello Morgan Point
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Passing Mouse Island
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A final shots of CROSSRUFF in Noank Shipyard
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Mystid River mooring field
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Morgan Point from the north
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Spicers Marina
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Rob in our tender video
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A very intricate rock wall
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The Tiki Bar returns video
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A dawn so dark you might think it is dusk
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Palmer House
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Quite a rock
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North Dumpling Island
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A very red sunrise over Masons Island
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Argia
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Mystic River
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Flower Lady of Noank
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We often had morning haze from our slip on the Mystic River
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More dramatic images taken in and around Noank Shipyard
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Jameson on the bow
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Mystic street sign
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CROSSRUFF at dusk
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Three videos of us takem from T/T CROSSRUFF ducking under bridges on the Mystic River
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More images taken around Noank Shipyard
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Inland lighthouse
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What an enormous tree
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Beautiful sunflowers
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Quite a tree trunk
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A handsome house
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Yacht Aphrodite
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A lovely garden
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Nothing makes for a relaxing vacation like quadruple hernia surgery
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We made lots of new friends on the Mystic River
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Sunrise images in and around Noank Shipyard
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Sabino and Argia pass
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Tidy moorings
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Our view south
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One of his first photos
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SCUPPER
May 6, 2007 - Aug 21, 2024
His paw-prints will be
forever on our hearts
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One of his last photos
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Looking towards Enders Island
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West Cove in Noank
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A tall ship passes us on the Mystic River
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A few images of our first sunrise at Noank Shipyard
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A few images of CROSSRUFF from around Noank Shipyard
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We arrived at Noank Shipyard to begin nearly a monthlong stay
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Race Rock Lighthouse
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Fishers Island
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Where we were married
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Montauk Lighthouse
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Viking Starship
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On the flybridge
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Cliff dwellings of the Indigenous Montauk millionaires
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A perfectly flat sea travel day
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S.A.G.E. Radar
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Plants ready to travel
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Goodbye Oakland's
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Ocean travel companion
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We spent some time in Oakland's Marina
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Checking our wake
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Jet skier chasing our wake
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Teresa posing
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Another pose
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Making a splash video
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Rob and Chasten
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Leaving the Pines for Shinnecock
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We attended a fundraiser for Doug Emhoff and Chasten Buttigieg in Fire Island Pines
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Fire Island Pines Harbor
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Tea dance indoors
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Tea Dance outdoors
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Paining 4 Ocean Walk
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Boys With Boats cropped our photo to use as their banner
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Pride carrots
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Rob and Scupper
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CAMP from CROSSRUFF
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Close...
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Closer...
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Closest
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Fire Island held its first 'Mrs. Roper Romp'
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Rob & Teresa
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Douglas & Teresa
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Don't touch my water
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CROSSRUFF at night
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Coast Guard visits
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What's up pussy cat ?
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Hello deer
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A rainbow in the harbor
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The Salon on CROSSRUFF
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Three videos of the 2024 Cherry Grove invasion of Fire Island Pines
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Various images of the 2024 Cherry Grove invasion of Fire Island Pines
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Atlantic Walk
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Moon over the ocean
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More FIPINES
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FIPINES
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CROSSRUFF at night
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Douglas and Scupper
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Low Tea at the Blue Whale
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FI Pines F.U. tree
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Brunch at the Blue Whale
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BJ arrives
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A birthday dinner for Rob
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A few more images from our birthday dinner for Rob
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At the Metropolitan Opera for a perfomance of Onegin
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Storm on the Atlantic
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A ferry arrives video
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Four water taxis video
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Arriving at Tea Dance video
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Another packed Tea Dance
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Sunset on the bay
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Maybe there is no sand dune under these walkovers because of the high water...
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Jameson pays us a visit in Fire Island Pines
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Another Black Cat
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Lightning on the Atlantic
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Sip and Twirl
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Fire Island Pines Harbor from CROSSRUFF
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Harbor Pride
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Mobility cart video
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Pride Flags at Blue Whale
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Tiki Bar in FI Pines video
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Somewhere between being a tree and being lumber
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Some images on our way to and in the boatyard during our annual haul out
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An egret flying by
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Northern Lights
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Scupper-vator video
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eFoil going north video
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eFoil going south video
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Scupper napping
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Calm waters on Ketcham Creek in Amity Harbor
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Docked near Kingston's
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Paris visits video
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Amity Harbor Dock
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Scupper's friend Benji
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Grand Tier Restaurant
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Scupper on watch
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At the Metropolitan Opera for Madama Butterfly
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Koch Theater
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Metropolitan Opera House
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David Geffen Hall
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Look closely and you can see the Robert Moses Causeway in the background
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Kent C. Dillon 7/30/1950 - 2/26/2024 Your memory will live on in us all
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Thank you Andrew Kirtzman for these images of the work being done in Fire Island Pines
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Scupper got a snow day
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Peconic Star
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Salon at night
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Why is this a thing?
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Really ready for the next storm
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Flooding at Kingston's
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The effects of the January 10th storm in Fire Islans Pines's harbor
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The effects of the January 10th storm while docked in West Sayville
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The effects of the January 10th storm from security cameras in Amity Harbor
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At the Metropolitan Opera to see Verdi's MASKED BALL
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2023 Images
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Stockings were hung...
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Scupper opens a present video
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Another new toy
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Sadly, the dune washed away
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The damage to the dune continued from late fall into the winter
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In late fall, Fire Island Pines began losing its protective dune
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October 19th sunset
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Why do chickens cross roads?
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I love you this much
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Annual and obligatory images of deer in Fire Island Pines
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F.I. Pines harbor
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This never gets old video
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Fire Island sunrise
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Family Affair passes by
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Docked at Oakland's
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Fire Island Lighthouse
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Motorized surfboard
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Mystic Seaport Museum
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Classic cars
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Mystic bascule bridge video
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Amtrak swing bridge video
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Cloudy day
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Scupper loves his BMW X7 window shades
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Groceries and Scupper
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Lady Elaine docked right behind CROSSRUFF at Mystic River Marina
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CROSSRUFF while at the Mystic Seaport Museum Marina
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Montauk Lighthouse
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Listen carefully video
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On our way to Mystic, CT
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On our way to Shinnecock Inlet
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Shinnecock sunset
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Smooth sailing
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Causeway sunset
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Wantagh Parkway entrance
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Sunset on the bay
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CROSSRUFF's Salon
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Scupper's Pines Party Ad
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Welcome home video
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Only in Fire Island Pines video
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Low Tea 2023
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A normal Pines ferry video
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An invasion ferry video
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The invasion
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A panoramic image of the Cherry Grove invasion of Fire Island Pines
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A disco ball above the fountain in the middle of Lincoln Center
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Laughing gulls
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Lincoln Center flamingos
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CAMP - Fire Island Pines
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Harbor rainbow
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Sharing is caring
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Nice rack
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CROSSRUFF having some cosmetic work done
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Our neighbor
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The 'Scuppervator'
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The 'Scuppervator' video
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CROSSRUFF
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MISCHIEF
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Both sterns
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Leaving Amity Harbor video
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Heading to Shellfish Marine
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In the travel lift
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Amity Harbor
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Passing under the Robert Moses Causeway
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At the Metropolitan Opera
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View from Grand Tier
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Scupper on watch
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