On September 11, we motored from Troy to Catskill, NY and experienced for the first time the effect of tides and currents. Unfortunately, we just woke up in the morning and left the wall in Troy without looking into what the tides were currently doing. Turns out the tide...
Articles for September 2015
Dropping Radio Waves 200 Feet into the Hudson River
And on the tenth day, we dropped Radio Waves over 200 feet, made a right hand turn, and entered the Hudson River! We went through a total of seven locks that day. The five in the middle are known as the Waterford Flight of Locks and drop/lift boats 169...
Canal Buddies
We spent ten days transiting the Erie Canal, averaging around 35 miles per day. At times I wished we had taken more time, but by the end, I was ready to be out of there. There’s a lot of history in these small canal towns and several of them...
Going Through the Locks
Some folks have asked us what it’s like going through the locks on the Erie Canal. Well, to be honest, the first one was a little scary, just like anything new might be, but ended up being pretty painless. It all starts with a call to the lock master...
Getting Rid of the Sailboat
Well, not exactly…but temporarily taking away Radio Waves’ sailing capabilities, also known as un-stepping the mast. In a nutshell, with the mast up, we are about 55 feet tall. There are bridges along the first third of the Erie Canal with only 15 feet of clearance, and about 21...
Are You Ready For Some Football?
We are! For those of you who don’t know us very well, Jim and I both graduated from Ohio State a few years ago (give or take a few years!) and we are die-hard Ohio State Buckeye fans. We’ve spent close to 30 years living in Wolverine territory just...
Our Route
Some of you have asked for a visual showing where we started and where we’ve been so far (which had been part of my plan for this website all along). I finally had some time to figure out how to make that happen, and so without further ado…I present...
Mangoes, Marleys and Mermaids, Oh My!
Well, well, well! Little did we know when we decided to take a side trip to Niagara Falls with Ron & Jackie from Skelton Crew that we’d find everything we were searching for! Well…at least according to our blog name! 😉 We’d been in Buffalo since Friday afternoon and...
Welcoming Party in Dunkirk
We finally made it out of Erie, PA and headed to Dunkirk, NY on a Thursday. We’d heard there was a long municipal wall that we could pull up to, and bonus, it was free! We’d also heard that the town wasn’t much to look at and there really...
Provisioning in Erie
Our freezer is tiny…which means we can’t keep a lot of meat frozen at once…which means we need to go to a grocery store way more than when we’re at home. Fortunately, we have bikes that we carry with us. Unfortunately, sometimes the grocery stores aren’t very close…and sometimes...