Strange day. The Locks were closed from 07 to 19 and we were just above Lock 17, in the closed section. They closed it because of the rain and high water with strong currents. Todays forecast […]
I wanted to get started early today because the weather for Monday and Tuesday are not good forecasts. We need to make 7 locks and approximately 42 miles today. Hard to predict how well the locks […]
It has rained for the last 2 days and although I am not sure how many inches of rain fell the Erie Canal is up about 10″‘ The sky looked threatening this morning but it was […]
We waited until almost 10:00 to get underway today because we did not want to fight the tide for the last tidal area on the Hudson River. We only had approximately 8 miles to the Troy, […]
Left a little before 7:00 this morning. The forecast is for strong storms later this afternoon and we wanted to avoid that. The sky was clear and the wind was light but the temp was 74 […]
We started late today waiting for the low tide. We wanted to get the push of a rising tide. We left the marina at 2:15. This gave me a chance to do some shopping this morning, […]
Checked the tides last night and got it wrong. We left the marina just at High Tide and we were fighting a falling tide going up the river. The Ferries on the rover were really something. […]