Waterford, New York State and on the Erie Canal

It rained off and on during our trip down the Erie Canal and into the Hudson River. Captain looking very serious as he's watching the river.

Me infront of a power plant on the Hudson River.

When we saw a dam/falls like this there would be a lock to the side of it for us to pass through.

Here we are leaving a lock. We only shared a lock once. We were amazed. We thought that there would be lots of boats heading down the Erie to the Hudson but not so.

The colours were beautiful. Saw lots of migrating birds and lots of trees.

This is dam that is open, we went under this, remember our mast is down so we look kind of like a power boat.

We started in Oswego at the top on Lake Ontario and were making our way down the Oswego Canal System and then into the Erie Canal System and later into the Hudson River.

We arrived in Waterford. It was a great little place to stop. We ate two suppers at "The Angry Penguin" and watched a football game there. That's where we had our Thanksgiving Dinner, a turkey sandwich with cranberries on the side.

Anthony ordered some boat parts, engine filters, etc. on line and had them sent to 1 Tug Boat Alley in Waterford, New York. It was fun getting mail in an away place. They were really friendly and had free Wifi, which I loved, a farmer's market and grand old houses.

A lot of the homes were decorated for Hallowe'en. It was fun to see all the different decorations and so early.

This was a beautiful little boat on the Champlain River. This river comes from the Montreal area and a number of boats from Quebec were in Waterford with us. Mumzel, a yellow sailboat, was there too and we meet them again in New York City.

We went grocery shopping and the store lets the boaters take the cart right down to their boat and they come and pick them up once a week. That was pretty kind of them. It's a lot of work carrying groceries down to the boat sometimes.

This house was built for Colonel Samuel Smith, I thought that was pretty coincidental since when we were in Toronto we lived in Colonel Samuel Smith Park. Not the same Colonel, I'm sure but maybe it is.

I thought this was pretty amazing, since 1794.

The boat looks pretty silly with it's mast down. There are sails everywhere and the big, huge mast resting on the top of the hard bimini and sticking out the front of our boat by...5 feet or so.

This bridge we went under.

It was pretty cool weather-wise on the trip down the Erie Canal. Anthony has his floater suit on. It's pretty warm. I wore it once too but it's too long.

Colours reflected.

Here we are in Hop O Nose Marina looking at the small town there...on the Catskill River and what was the name of the town....can't remember right now. Right now I'm sitting in my reading seat on the boat with New Jersey in front of me and the night skyline of New York behind me. I can't believe it. Sitting on my own boat with these two skylines just right outside my ports.

Our AIS is working well and telling us on our chartfinder whenever a bargeboat is close. This is a tugboat fitted into the back of a barge and pushing it along. There are quite a few on the Hudson River.

This is the Hudson Athens Lighthouse. There were a few lighthouses like this one out in the middle of the Hudson River.

Here we are at Hop O Nose about to get our mast stepped. Finally...to look like a sailboat again.

Along the Catskills River.