September 12-13
Where did that day go? We woke up this morning with the best of intentions, and before we knew it the day was gone.
While checking our email at the Visitor Centre we began chatting with Tom and Trudy, who have been cruising the ICW for the past ten or twelve years. They are a wealth of information and we ended up joining them for a late brunch.
We resolved to leave early the next morning.
We did get away in good time. Waterford opens directly to the Hudson River. We passed through yet one more lock, the Troy lock, before reaching Troy. Around the first corner in town, we passed this little cruiser. Things may be getting bigger as we move towards New York City.
Our destination is Riverview Marina on Catskill Creek where we will have our mast stepped. However, we have to stop in Albany to pick up a cruising permit from US Customs and Immigration. If we had entered the US with the boat, we would have picked it up at that time. Since we began our trip in Michigan, this did not happen, and seemed to pose a conundrum for officials.
As we are pulling up to the city dock, we lost power to our instruments and chartplotter – no, on closer inspection we had no electrical power at all. This was unnerving, and we hoped not an omen of our meeting with the Customs officer. However, the meeting was very cordial, and we continued on our way, although without our electrical power. The rest of our trip went very smoothly.
This is a lighthouse quite near our final destination.
Where did that day go? We woke up this morning with the best of intentions, and before we knew it the day was gone.
While checking our email at the Visitor Centre we began chatting with Tom and Trudy, who have been cruising the ICW for the past ten or twelve years. They are a wealth of information and we ended up joining them for a late brunch.
We resolved to leave early the next morning.
We did get away in good time. Waterford opens directly to the Hudson River. We passed through yet one more lock, the Troy lock, before reaching Troy. Around the first corner in town, we passed this little cruiser. Things may be getting bigger as we move towards New York City.Our destination is Riverview Marina on Catskill Creek where we will have our mast stepped. However, we have to stop in Albany to pick up a cruising permit from US Customs and Immigration. If we had entered the US with the boat, we would have picked it up at that time. Since we began our trip in Michigan, this did not happen, and seemed to pose a conundrum for officials.
As we are pulling up to the city dock, we lost power to our instruments and chartplotter – no, on closer inspection we had no electrical power at all. This was unnerving, and we hoped not an omen of our meeting with the Customs officer. However, the meeting was very cordial, and we continued on our way, although without our electrical power. The rest of our trip went very smoothly.This is a lighthouse quite near our final destination.
