The boatyard has completed the repairs. Today we will ask them to email their final invoice so that we can have a week to digest the information. Our plan is to go up next Thursday with a one-way SUV rental packed with charts, tools, new dock lines, fenders, and bedding. Rusty made a fender board and we'll take that along as well.
The boat will have been splashed by the time we get there and the final checks for seaworthiness will have been completed. We'll stay on board Friday night and start our homeward journey Saturday morning. It is expected that we will make about 70 miles each day. Our broker and his wife will join us until we feel comfortable to continue the journey on our own. They will review navigation and boat maintenance with us along the way. It's a very nice feature of his brokerage service and it is complimentary.
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
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
The journey begins...
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