What a busy summer…graduation, wedding, family reunion,
reuniting with friends and family, the Clayton Boat Show for Debbie and I and my parents, cars, projects galore! It seemed like we arrived a week ago and
we’re already on our way south!
The last big project was to haul and paint the bottom at
Callahan’s Marina on Oneida Lake. With
that done, we headed back to “home base” at Brian and Debbie’s, loaded up the
boat and were ready to leave – the earliest we’ve ever left! The weather should be better, the days
longer, less stress as we head south a couple weeks earlier.
If you click on the SPOT link (upper right hand corner of
this page) you should be able to follow
us this winter thanks to my brother Brian, our neighbors Laurie and Bill,
fellow sailors Liz in NY, Sunny in NY & SC, Arnaud in FL, Tracie in CT, colleague from Trumansburg
Elementary Pat, friend from grade school Bernadette, family friend and wooden
boat enthusiast Anne, and Ya-Shian who was a 3rd grader in my class
of my first ever teaching position in Ithaca many years ago! Thank you for funding the SPOT tracker.
We traveled the Erie here to Waterford, NY with Ron and Deb
on Scheherazade.
Tomorrow onto the
Hudson where we will put the mast up, head to Sandy Hook, NJ, and then on onto
the Atlantic.
Our first and foremost
concern will be, as always, the weather.
We always carefully watch the weather, especially now as we are still in
an active hurricane season, and we will travel with plans to duck into safe
harbors if and when needed.
PS: There are harbor cams at the Waterford Visitor Center:
http://www.town.waterford.ny.us/harbor-visitors-center.html I don't think we're on the camera (we're closest to the lock) but maybe you'd like to see Waterford!
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| My niece Kira's graduation in Maine |
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| My niece Marjatta's wedding in Candor, NY. |
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| A picture of the rearview mirror of a classic wooden boat - Miss Thousand Islands in Clayton. You'll see the driver, me, Debbie, Dad and Mom enjoying a beautiful ride on the St. Lawrence River. |
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| One of the castles along the St. Lawrence River boat ride. |
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| Screens, handrails, and companionway trim freshly varnished. |
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| The anchor chain is pulled into the yard and marked so we know how many feet we're putting out when anchoring. |
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| Persephone is ready to put back in the water after new bottom paint application. |
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| My 4 five gallon buckets produced a load of roma tomatoes on the cabin top. |
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| Apples on the aft deck. No pies yet but soon come! |
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| Persephone and Scheherazade tied up at Lock 15 at the end of a long day of motoring. |
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| Up early from Lock 15 and headed down the Erie with the fog. |
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| Looking back a Scheherazade in the fog. |
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| Fog clears - another glorious day on the Erie! |
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| This morning's approach to the Waterford docks. |
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