Spuyten Duyvil - Harlem River and Hell Gate

Taking a boat trip from the Hudson River, through the Spuyten Duyvil swing bridge to the Harlem River. The Harlem River is a narrow shipping channel on the northern end of Manhattan Island separating it from the Bronx. The Harlem River exits at Hell Gate, often a treacherous passing due to the numerous conflicting currents and shifting tides from the Harlem River, East River and from the Long a island Sound. See the numerous bridges and learn a little history of the river, which was once dammed and even had a lock at one point. Enjoy our Adventure, In both directions and learn why it’s called “Devil’s whirlpool”
Part one of our trip to Long Island’s Oyster Bay.

[@billflorio4720]

Great video! I’ve never seen the city from that perspective. Very different views than those we see cruising the Narragansett Bay here in RI.

[@robertlevine8243]

Love your videos I was a nyc boater out of queens and then found paradise in Miami Florida.a lot of rocks around the nyc area at low tide it’s very unforgiving. South Florida is the place to be on the water . Happy boating.

[@AdventuresofHappyOurs]

I know NYC waters well. Lived in Staten Island and worked in Brooklyn many years. NY harbor and Jamaica Bay were my boating stomping grounds.

[@Harry_Gurvich]

I'm doing this boat trip for the first time next Sunday and this video answered (quite beautifully) many of the questions I had. I'm looking forward to it even more now. Thanks so much for posting

[@AdventuresofHappyOurs]

Enjoy and thanks!

[@iggykarpov]

How did it go?

[@michaelsullo3698]

Enjoyed your video. very much. The part I found a little amusing was when you said, "you have Manhattan island on your right and The Bronx on your left, " At that point of the river, Manhattan was on both sides!!!

[@AdventuresofHappyOurs]

Manhattan is just an island. Where are you saying it’s both sides?

[@BeCoShooter]

@@AdventuresofHappyOurs He's right. Marble Hill is not technically The Bronx, It's Manhattan. The original location of Spuyen Duyvil creek was a bit more north. That part of the waterway is the Harlem River Ship Channel, which was built in 1895, rendering Marble Hill an island. Later the original creek was filled in, but the land stayed as part of Manhattan.

[@AdventuresofHappyOurs]

@@BeCoShooter interesting. I didn’t know that!

[@hamiltonsny]

Great video! I We made this trip last year after I sold my apartment on the Manhattan side of the Mccombes Dam Bridge in July 2020 and bought my 370 Sundancer. We're getting ready now to leave Savannah and continue on to St Croix! Keep up the great content and we hope to see you in the Caribbean when you get there!

[@leandrewwilliams554]

Thank you for the video, we are planning on doing later on this year

[@firesurfer]

You didn't really mention this is an artificially dredged river. It was originally about 1/4 mile north (Marble Hill Ave and 230st) before being redirected. At low tide at King's Bridge, it was typically only 3-4' deep. This was known as wading river point by the Indians.

[@AdventuresofHappyOurs]

Lots of history on the waters entire circumference of the island of Manhattan.

[@LeDeauville]

Very interesting video 👍

[@OutOnTheReef]

Awesome views cap.👍 too bad it was not sunny

[@AdventuresofHappyOurs]

Weather has been horrible this summer in NY. Rain nearly every day. It seems just this week that the trend is changing thankfully, but my boat vacations are over. :( “retirement” can’t come soon enough.

[@OutOnTheReef]

@@AdventuresofHappyOurs hope you retired soon Bahama waters are waiting for you cap.

[@Kayak7seas]

nice video, looked a little too windy for kayaking.

[@Dang...]

Thanks.

[@interstellarphred]

What?! no railway bridge? The biggest when built!

[@AdventuresofHappyOurs]

Still there.

[@fredashay]

Wait! That train at 2:32 has no engine! And those two trains at 2:45 are going backwards!

[@AdventuresofHappyOurs]

Lol. Did I run the video backwards?

[@megatop412]

Those are "cab cars" which have engineer cabs in the very front of the passenger cars so that they can be driven like a locomotive, only the loco is in the back of the train pushing. Many, many passenger railroads use these (such as NJ Transit by where I live). Saves the hassle of having to detach the loco at the end of the line and run it back up to the other end to start pulling again

[@Widda68]

Did you say open city sewer portals emptying into the Harlem? That must be a beautiful sight while you were still on the Hudson was that the George Washington bridge off to the south crossing the Hudson? And as you turn into the Harlem River was that the Henry Hudson bridge? Did you happen to go past the Hellgate bridge by chance? Was there a discernible stink on the Harlem River from all the sewage that emptied into it

[@AdventuresofHappyOurs]

No stinks that I remember. Raw sewage doesn’t typically flow into the waters unless there are heavy downpours and the sewage treatment plants can’t keep up. That was the Henry Hudson we went under and the GwB was further south on the Hudson. We past hellgate and other bridges in the following video as we went out the Long Island Sound.

[@postalfnj]

Alot of bridges

[@Chillwaving]

Doing a trip up to Peeksville next week; leaving from West Islip in Great South Bay. Did you radio the bridge operator or call?

[@AdventuresofHappyOurs]

Very responsive on radio. Hardest part is the pronunciation. Lol. "Spyten dievil"

[@Chillwaving]

@@AdventuresofHappyOurs trip was great Check out my latest video. 👍

[@AdventuresofHappyOurs]

Awesome vid! I love hiking Bear Mountain. I used to live 5 minutes from it. So much to see.

[@longviewfarm226]

I see you encountered the Dominican navy

[@marcellocolona4980]

😃

[@fantaticusa]

can you fish in that area

[@AdventuresofHappyOurs]

I see people fish everywhere. I don’t know if I would want to eat the fish out of there though.

[@nomad4k]

Second that. Catch and release only. Do not eat fish in this area, way too many contaminants in the water.

[@richardbennett4365]

East not-a-river. It is so obviously not a river. Why is that tidal estuary called a river? At best it is a ria.

[@issaknife802]

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