Welcome to Our Journey

2014 - Brewerton, NY, up the Trent-Severn and onto to Lake Superior for a trip around its perimeter

2013 - Brewerton, NY along the Erie Canal, down the Hudson River, east along Long Island Sound and up the coast to Maine, returning to Brewerton . May to early October 2013

2012 - Naples, FL north on the ICW, Chesapeake Bay, up the Hudson to complete the Little Triangle (lakes, rivers & canals from Brewerton, NY to Niagara-on-the-Lake, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Lake Champlain, Waterford, NY and back to Brewerton). April to September 2012

2011 - Our first year of cruising took us around the Great Loop (up the East Coast, inland via the Great Lakes, the rivers from Chicago to Mobile and across the Gulf of Mexico) an eight month journey beginning in Goodland, FL and ending in Naples, FL. April to December 2011

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

to October 9 - on the water again and home

We waited not in vain.

  • waxed upper section of boat
  • serviced windlass
  • clean anchor chain with fresh water
  • inventoried supplies and parts
  • purchased oil for the entire 2014 cruising season, filter and belts also
  • made new anchor snubber
  • cleaned and polished interior teak
  • cleaned and polished flybridge "windows"
  • met with Adirondack, another Monk, who gave us their itinerary for the Down East Loop.  As we are hoping to do this trip in 2015, it was a wonderful coincidence that we met up.


We received news that the Locks 11-14 were going to open up first thing on Thursday morning so we headed to Amsterdam on Wednesday to position ourselves.  HaHa...

All day Thursday we waited in Amsterdam and finally the locks opened at 4:15, too late to make the complete passage past through Lock 14.  Last Dance, Nido, and another joined us.  Docktails!

Friday morning we left at 6:50am and had a long run to the free wall at Herkimer.  We passed through the trouble spot at Lock 13 which did not have a lift but we still had to stop in the lock. Rainy day.

Saturday, Oct 5, we left Herkimer at 6:40 am and reached Winter Harbor, Brewerton, NY by 4 pm.  The weather turned on Sunday and those crossing Lake Oneida that day were miserable.

We had a three day rental which we picked up Sunday evening and by Monday 10 am  after speaking with the marina staff, we were on the road.  Wednesday, Oct 9, we were home again.

It was an incredible trip, so much so, that we are considering keeping our boat in Maine when we are finished exploring.  We will treat it as a floating summer cottage until that too will be but a happy memory.
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