the Cooper: October 2013

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.