NEW YORK—Captain Carl Madsen spent the Night of Irene aboard the Riptide, a 90-foot fishing boat based on City Island, in the Bronx.
He and a deckhand took the boat across Long Island Sound on Saturday evening to Hempstead Harbor, on Long Island's north shore. The wind howled "like a freight train" overnight, and the water was "a little choppy" around 4 a.m., but the boat's sheltered location kept it from becoming battered.
They returned to City Island around 9 a.m. Sunday, with white caps on the Sound rocking the Riptide "like a washing machine," said Madsen.
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