(FOUND THIS BLOG IN THE ARCHIVES AS A DRAFT SO I THINK IT WAS NOT PREVIOUSLY POSTED. SORRY FOR THE SLIP-UP) The winds did not seem to be blowing quite as hard in the morning. Candy […]
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. […]
Check the weather this morning and it did not look too bad. NOAA said 2′ to 4′ waves with winds 10 to 15 mph out of the Southwest. I had talked to the Marina Dock Master […]
I got up early today to see what was going on. By the time Candy and I came out of the boat at 5:45, 9 boats had left the dock and the marina owner was there […]
Cold morning today with 46 outside but the sun came up into a cloudless sky. The wind was pretty light at 6:15 when we came out for Candy’s walk this morning. I decided to fuel up […]