Waterford, NY is the start of the Erie Canal, and a favorite spot for us – so much history and […]
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HOT on the water! Long Island, NYC, Hudson River – 7/21/22 to 7/27/22
Early departure from Port Jefferson on 7/21, cruising along the final portions of Long Island Sound with a group of […]
End of the Erie Canal with our first guest crew of 2021- Sue and Clare!
On June 14, 2021, after a full day of birthday festivities (boat, bike, GF pizza and calls/texts/messages), we had our […]
2021 And we are off!
Good-bye, Maine, for now! We rose, sleepily yet excited, at 3am to drive from Kittery Point, ME to Brewerton, NY, […]
Thankful for 2020 adventuring, praying for 2021
Our final cruising days were cloudy with showers and thunderstorms threatening, but we really only had hard rains one full […]
Aquaducts, lift bridges, & kindness along the western Erie Canal 2020
August is passing quickly. The leaves are just starting to change on the beech and maple trees along the canal […]
Cayuga-Seneca Canal, Finger Lakes, and westward
Jumped back into Lock Cayuga-Seneca #4, the final lock in the C-S series. Thankfully this one is without mechanical issues […]
Go west, trawler Clare, go west
After two days of cleaning, provisioning the boat, unpacking and storing, doing planned (installing rollout drawers, rewiring the DC buss […]
Shelter in place…on trawler Clare! August 2020
A year like no other. We isolate aboard Clare and explore the western end of the Erie Canal and a few Finger Lakes
2019 Finale: Revisiting the Erie Canal in September
Waterford NY felt a little like returning home, but without our previous Erie crew, Sue and Al, and without the […]
Our Great Loop Journey on Trawler "Clare" 