Sailing Trip: Waterford, NY 5-20-11

We left Croton-on-the-Hudson on the 15th and headed North to Catskill, NY. We got there at about 4:00 PM. There was very little wind and about a 1 to 1.5 knot current flowing against us at times. The 3 foot tide helped us and counteracted the current when it was flowing in. The 3 foot tide goes all the way up to the first dam in Troy, NY where the Erie Canal starts.
In Catskill, NY we retrieved the mast cradle that we had left there on the trip South. We took off the boom, boom vang, solar panels, Radar, VHF antenna, wind instrument, windex, dodger and bimini canvas. After securing the mast cradle to the boat, we had the mast removed and set in it's cradle. Once that was done we put the dodger and bimini canvas back on. All that took only one day. The next day Tuesday the 17th we left for Troy, NY. On the 18th we went through the Troy Lock on the Hudson River. Before going through the first Erie Canal Lock we tied up at Waterford just in front of the lock, since the lockmaster informed us that it would be a 30 minute wait to start through the lock. While tied up at the dock we talked to people on a boat that I went through the locks with in October last year. They convinced us that Waterford was a good place to wait for locks 23 to 26 to open. It is Friday the 20th today and we are still waiting for those locks to open. It will only take us 3 days to get to the closed locks from here.

A little house on the prairie, on the Hudson