"I'm doing it for the boat," he said, explaining that the diesel inboard had just been repaired and would benefit from running for a few hours before hibernating. "I love this boat. It's hard for me to leave it. We've spent a lot of time together."
By his own accounting, Lipscomb travelled eighty thousand miles on the Hudson and its tributaries during the past two and a half decades, or the equivalent of more than three circumnavigations of the Earth, all at a slow and steady speed of five or six knots, with the aim of seeing and being seen.
"Everyone calls it the mighty Hudson," he said. "And yet it can't defend itself." He was passing beneath the Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge, whose construction he had opposed.
"Now we know what kind of guy Cuomo was," he said, referring to Andrew, who spearheaded the project before resigning in the wake of sexual-harassment charges, in 2021. "We see that he wanted a massive erection to name after his daddy and light it up at night."
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