SweetPea docked at Winter Harbour Marina in Brewerton, NY they have 2 courtesy cars and a fantastic supermarket here, as well as West Marine, Walmart, Target etc.Out for a joy ride!Stopped in Phoenix just long enough to take pictures and wait for the l…
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Heading into Canada
July 8thWe sent a couple days at Winter Harbour marina making sure everything is good for a crossing of Lake Ontario into Canada. All Boat issues have been addressed to the Canadian standards.We are now down to the Legal amounts of , tobacc…
Happy 2nd 3rd and 4th of July from NY
We spent 5 days in Sylvan Beach NY, seemed like a good place of the long weekend. Jim decided to take the dinghy down and go for a ride.Mike and Twyla came for a visit on their new wheels.All dressed up! Its happy hour and dinner out t…
Steamboats-Debris-docking on lock wall
Coming out of a lock we saw a dozen of these small steamboats waiting to lock downThey are heading to Waterford visitors center for a steam boaters weekend for the 4thHere is the Great Grand Daddy of Steamers. 110 year old steam tug Urger leads …
Little Falls to Sylvan Beach on Lake Oneida
June 28thWhat a Longggggg day, it was one of those days that everything seems difficult nothing major its the little stuff. But, we survived, yesterday the locks seemed to be easy, today they were more work, not that there was wind or rain but th…
Let the locking begin! Erie Canal here we come.
We entered our 1st lock on the Erie Lock#2 at 7:40 this morning it was a 34′ lift, This series of locks are called the “Waterford Flight ” the flight features five locks where vessels are lifted or lowered the greatest height in the shortest dist…
Farmers market Waterford/Erie Locks open again
Just passing time waiting on the locks to open back up and they have as of this morning. We hope to leave here tomorrow morning. Today was the farmers market on the riverfront with some very good entertainment just 40′ away, I picked …
Still on the Waterford FREE dock Locks 11-14 closed!
We were originally planning to leave here yesterday but we decided to stay as it was suppose to be the worst of the next 2 days ie gusty winds and rain but of course it was actually pretty nice. All the other loop boats left so Jim decided to dis…
Kingston NY to Waterford NY
June 21st and 22ndWe are now in Waterford which means we are now on the entryway to the Erie Canal. We did our first lock in Troy and then landed on our first FREE dock at the visitors center. We knew when we left this morning that Nau…
Croton to Haverstraw to Kingston NY
Monday June 20thToday was a later than expected start as we needed to return the rental car, get a pump out and to fuel up. SO… we traveled over to Haverstraw Marina once everything was done we didn’t get off their dock until almost 11am. …
