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Troy Lock and Dam, just downstream of where the Erie Canal
enters the Hudson River.
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This is a GREAT sign! - Can you imagine that they felt the
need to post this sign to warn boaters!? The lock goes up and down about 15
feet or more. If you tied your boat to a ladder you would hang it up on the
lock wall and either drown or be left hanging high and dry from the side of
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Sept 26, made it to the Troy NY town docks in the early
afternoon. Floating docks but note the really high seawall beside it. We
tried to stay at Waterford but the town docks were full. I don't think I'd
stay at Troy again - either Waterford or go on down to the Albany or
Castleton Yacht Clubs a short ways down river. This is roughly 150 miles or
so North of New York City.
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Troy Lockmasters office at the top of the
ramp and gate. We tried to buy fuel but his fuel filters on the pump were
clogged so we only got 11 gallons - starboard side.
(check our NJ-Chesapeake log and see where we lost the starboard engine
due to fuel filters clogging 15 miles out of Barnegat Inlet! - He had pumped
crap (figuratively) into our fuel tank.)
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Cheryl is checking out a town map for Troy before we head
out.
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Jessica getting ready to leave the boat with us.
(OK Jessica - easy on the make-up. No boys around)
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Storefront Gnome
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We all walked a LONG way through town for a beer/wine
resupply.
We all got our arm exercise by walking all those blocks bag with boxes of
beer and wine!
(Boaters Exercises)
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Through Troy, we found an entire block barricaded by police,
with about 5 cop cars surrounding a city bus. It seems someone was lipping
off on the bus and the driver just stopped and called the police. They
surrounded him. Looked like a scene from that Sandra Bullock movie about the
runaway bus!
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Headed out early Sept 27th down the river. We stopped at the
Albany Yacht Club for fuel, but the fuel dock wasn't open yet at 9am.
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One boater there was very friendly & Helpful though, and
suggested that we go down to the Castleton boat club, below Albany, if we
didn't want to wait around for an hour or so.
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Large sections of the Hudson river that morning had markers
out and lots of marine patrol boats. It appeared that there was some
significant competition - college class - of sculling boats. We slowed down
to no-wake each time we passed one, so it really delayed us.
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This looked like one of the staging areas on the banks, in
Albany NY.
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Lisa & Cheryl got a kick out of this U-Haul van on top of a
several story high warehouse.
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Kept on going and stopped here at the Castleton Boat Club for
fuel. Nice place and friendly people.
Lisa, Greg & Dave fueling the boat.
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Bar area for the Castleton Boat Club. I think I'd look to
stay here if we came back this way. They were getting ready for a pig roast
that morning.
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Big Boat, Small Boat.
(Besides - it's not the size of the boat, it's the motion of the ocean!)
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Dave's getting comfortable at the Helm.
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Coeyman's Landing & Marina |
Shared the river with the tug Cheyenne much of the morning.
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Lisa got a nice shot of this Bald Eagle. She and Dave got to
watch it take a fish out of the water and fly off.
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Louie Dog plots his escape!
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An Historic Hudson River Lighthouse.
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The skipper of this "PT" tour boat was rather rude. When he
passed the this other tour boat above, he slowed down to no wake and
exchanged pleasantries. When he went by us he waked us big time (twice)
screaming close by when he had enough room to go around, and didn't slow
down a bit.
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Another historic Lighthouse on the Hudson River.
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The Lighthouse at Rondout Creek, Kingston NY, where we'd
spend the night.
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Dave at the Helm. |
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Greg, Dave & Cheryl on the Flybridge.
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Rondout Creek.
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This is MY kind of Tugboat (left & right). It looks like it
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Going up Rondout Creek to Kingston NY.
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MV Nova tied up to Kingston City docks.
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An early morning start on Sept 28th and another historic
lighthouse - this one under renovation.
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Foggy & low clouds - foretelling the rest of the day down to
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Tara the Quaker Parrot is hanging in there.
She hasn't been tossed out of her cage by rough seas since Lake Erie - so
she's happy.
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Greg's still waking up with a cup of coffee while Dave Pilots
the boat.
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The clouds keep getting lower.
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New York City --- Here We Come!
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In boating, wives are not "back seat drivers" - they're
called Port Seat Navigators!
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Marlboro Yacht Club.
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Lisa worked ALL morning at getting this shot of a monarch
butterfly that seemed to follow us for a long way down river - over, in
front of, and behind the flybridge, then start it all over again, as if he
was escorting us down the river.
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... and the clouds keep getting lower ... and darker ...
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Passing through Newburgh NY.
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... out of the macabre mist, of the swirling unknown, appears
the Castle on the Distant Island.
.... ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha..... (evil laugh)
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The weather is starting to appear to be an issue - and it
was. All the way to NYC.
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Bannerman's Castle on an Island on the Hudson River. I keep
looking for Vincent Price in the watch tower!
Our kids have explored this in years past by dinghy ---- Elegant inside, and
very SPOOKY!
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Dave goes below to take a break while Greg pilots downriver.
It started raining and this point and was miserable most of the rest of the
way to NYC - but manageable.
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Heading to Liberty Landing Marina, Jersey City, directly
across from the Battery and Financial District in New York City.
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This place was expensive ($4/ft per nigh), but VERY
convenient for Manhatten. I had meetings there for two days with the
International Association of Laser and Aesthetics in midtown. The trip down
the river was only 2 days - arriving on Sunday afternoon. I had meeting
Monday and Tuesday, and then left to head south Wednesday morning.
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The bathrooms and showers for the marina were located inside
this big red ship.
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"NOVA" tied up at Liberty Landing"
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We had a great view of lower Manhatten - right where the twin
towers once stood. The last time we were through here by boat was June of
2001 when the towers were still standing.
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The boat "Salsa Dancer". We put this up for Nancy Little, who
loves to Salsa Dance.
Maybe Dan will buy this boat for her?
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To make my meetings in midtown, I first took the water taxi
across the canal into Jersey City.
Lisa got a rental van and she, Cheryl, Dave, Jessica, all 3 dogs and the
bird headed back to Columbus.
WOW! - When I got back to the boat that night by myself. IF WAS A HUGE BOAT!
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The water taxi arrives.
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The captain seems nice & relaxed -- unusual for NYC.
(but I have to say everyone in Jersey city and in Manhattan were very
friendly.)
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I have to ride the subway from Jersey City over to the World
Trade Center Location in Manhattan.
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I'm not used to the NYC subway system, so it took me a few
minutes to figure out which trains and which tracks.
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The subway goes through the lower section of the old towers,
where ALL KINDS of new construction is going on. This looks at it from
street level. (left & right).
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Fountain out front of the World Trade Center PATH subway
station.
I'll take cabs from here.
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Lisa had gotten a Hertz rental car to drive home (had some
problems getting it).
She left Columbus Tuesday night about 8pm and drove all night, arriving at
the boat about 5:45am so we could take the car back and get started out into
the Atlantic ocean.
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We got the car back in time, but had to stop first at the
grocery to resupply. The guy at the Hertz station gave us a ride back to the
boat with our groceries.
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Left the harbor about 11 something in the morning, on down
the New York Harbor and out to the Atlantic ocean. This was on Wednesday
October 1st. |
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We leave Manhattan in our wake.
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Upper New York Harbor is VERY CONGESTED!
... as you can see from all the blips on our radar.
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Ellis Island (The marina was almost adjacent to this) |
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The Verazano Bridge is our gate to the Atlantic Ocean!
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Leaving NYC and the Hudson river on Wednesday October 1st,
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Check on our next leg & adventure (and it really was!) - down the Jersey
coast to Cape May, and up the Delaware Bay to Chesapeake Bay.
