October 7 – 15I can't believe it's been over a week since the last blog post! After leaving Barnegat Light with our repaired engine we had a safe run down the 40 miles of coastline to arrive in Atlantic City at 4:30 p.m. We sure were surp…
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Stranded on the Jersey Shore
September 30 – October 7After leaving the Hudson River, we first anchored off the east side of Staten Island near Huguenot Beach, an area of single family residential homes, most of which are very large, but built right on top of one another. We ha…
Cruising Down the Dirty Hudson
September 27 – 30, 2011It's about 160 miles from Troy, NY to the Verrazano Narrows Bridge. It takes us 4 days because we can only go 25 miles the first day, there are a limited number of places where we can safely anchor, the tidal current on t…
The Circle is Completed
September 19 – 26, 2011This is truly a momentous post for me. I am writing from the same dock I where I first presented our cruising plan with the June 13 post, meaning we all (sometimes I wasn't sure all of us would be back here together) have…
FLUKE Finishes the Champlain Canal
September 16 – 18, 2011Our next planned stop after leaving Lock 7 was the wonderful little town of Mechanicville, located between Lock 2 and Lock 3. The lowest bridge on the Champlain Canal is between Lock 4 and Lock 3, and we got under it without …
Cruising on the Champlain Canal: Locks 9 – 3
September 11 – 15, 2011For this section of locks, after leaving Lock 11, we ended up spending one night at Lock 9 and four nights at Lock 7. I'm going to divide the post into canal scenery for the lock series and then Lock 7 history and activit…
Trapped in the Champlain Canal: Locks 12 and 11: The Sea Stooges biggest blunder
September 6 – 10, 2011In the chronological order of the blog, by date, I wrote that we had gone all the way to the southern end of Lake Champlain and had wanted to lock through Lock 12 to get into the Champlain Canal. However, Lock 12 was closed. …
