Schenectady Yacht Club

We are into the Erie Canal and its lock system.  

Here's an idea of the process to approach enter and transit...

We transited seven locks today including the one and only Hudson Lock at Troy.  We are now in Schenectady Yacht Club.  It is a Cooperative type operation.  Nice pool, great folks.  Filled with Diesel after they were able to restock at 4.19 per gallon.  Cool spot.  Actually managed to do some work today.  Quiet, hot and good to read in air conditioned cabin on our boat.

Tomorrow we head to St Johnsville....

Troy, NY

We headed out from Kingston at 0745 this morning to make the most of the tide.  We made 10mph or a little less most of the way at 1200 rpm.  An efficient cruise.  We passed through Albany before Troy:

 We landed in Troy 45 minutes ago at 2:45pm.  It is a very warm day here!  

Tomorrow we pass through Troy Lock on the Hudson and then, four miles later, we enter the Erie Canal at Waterford.  Finally!!!

Kingston, NY

No movement today.  I filled up the oil in the starboard engine and emptied water from under the port.  It was not antifreeze so it was from some other, less critical,  source.  I will keep an eye on it. Tomorrow we head to Troy to begin the canal trek. We had breakfast and supper at Oasis on the Water here in Rondout Yacht Basin.  This young couple are running an amazing operation.  Breakfast was great but the Rib Eyes we had for supper were to die for.  Good luck to them both.

Where we are....

...now.  Forgot this yesterday:

Kingston, NY

If anyone is interested I took a video while we were on our way in fog to New York.

We had an issue this morning.  I checked the engine oil and found the starboard engine had burst an oil pressure transducer and was weeping oil into the bilge.  We had lost a few quarts.  It took a couple of hours to clean up and plug the transducer.  All instruments are reading fine so I am not sure what that transducer did. But I will definitely track it down.  We made Kingston ok and I phoned around and found 6 gallons of suitable oil.  I had two on board that I put in the starboard engine before we left this morning.  We will stay a day in Kingston for a reading day to do with my work and to do some groceries (Jo, while I read).  I figure this might put us better in time with folks rushing through the tomorrow open Canals.

The route to Kingston was very nice but the river was still full of winter debris.  The harbour here is perfect.

It is Memorial Day weekend here so everyone is decked out in their patriotic colours.

Marlboro, New York

I would have liked a second day at Lincoln Harbor but we press north whenever we can.  We passed some power stations.  Yonkers:

And from a later but still bygone era:

The Hudson is really quite picture skew picturesque in places:

Our marina for tonight is West Shore.  It is quite different from Lincoln  Harbor of last night but equally enjoyable.  Very nice outlook...

and a freight train track out back...

 

Tomorrow we head just 20 miles upstream to Kingston to refuel, do some work and figure out what to do next.  NY State Canals have just said they will open the Oswego Canal on Sunday.  This after just today saying a schedule would be out in 72 hours.  No matter.  Sooner is better than later!!  We will work north as quickly as we can.

Lincoln Harbor Yacht Club

We tied up half an hour ago.

The day started early.  We set out at 0615 to take advantage of lower winds as the forecast had them increasing steadily during the day.  It wasn't immediately apparent from the marina but when we left the harbour jetty it was thick fog.  Visibility was about 150 yards.  Using radar and GPS Chartplotter (laptop) we eased around the channels to the Barnegat Inlet and out into the Atlantic.  The fog did not relent.  We watched the radar continuously and followed the coast up to New York.  The fog was just beginning to lift as we went under the Verrazano Narrows Bridge:

  

Happily it had all but gone by the time we passed the Statue of Liberty as Jo had been longing to see it.

As we motored up to the Hudson River we passed my next boat.

Lincoln Harbor Marina is right across from Manhattan and this is where we tie up for night.

  

Tomorrow we head north up the Hudson River and closer to home.  I had left a message with someone at New York State Canals and he called me back while we were en route.  He had no idea when the remaining sections will open up.  So the plan remains.  We will head North provided we have a marina to slip into.