How about an evening sail on a warm Manhattan evening on a graceful modern replica of a schooner big enough for 170 happily anticipating passengers to board its broad and low wooden deck, with a small bar dispensing fine rum and pineapple or any other drink you prefer, and a jazz pickup combo of accomplished local New York professionals including Danny Walsh on sax, Joe Cohn (son of the great Al Cohn) on guitar, trumpet, bass, with James "Jimmy" Polski on drums, playing sophisticated, casual but driving jazz rooted in New York City born and bred ease and creative flow in the way only locals can manage, while the giant ship slips smoothly through the placid dark waters of New York Harbor for two hours and the blazing lights in every office of Wall Street scorch shining paths across the blackened water to the boat from Manhattan, and the crowd of prettily curved women in frilly summer dresses and tall dark jowled men in jeans and t shirts with their arms around them gaze out at the night shadowed water and the huge cheese slice of the moon rises above Staten Island, and the great blue Statue of Liberty is seen through the riggings with its faraway torch raised and floodlit?

How about that for only $45 (special tonight, usually $90) on a perfect warm and still Wednesday night from 7.30pm to 10.30pm from Pier 17 at South Street Seaport, easily reached from anywhere in Manhattan and other parts by subway to Fulton Street? The big stand alone ticket booth is right in front of you as you walk onto the pier, about thirty yards slightly to the right.

Not bad.