After doing a few hours of work in the morning, it was time to leave Oswego and make the last leg of the trip to Rochester. After about 3 hours on the lake, we made the turn into the Genesee River and Rochester Harbor. On the 9th day since departing Stamford, we tucked the boat […]

We left the dock in Phoenix right at 7 AM, as soon as lock O1 indicated they were ready for us. A quick ride down the lock and under a lift bridge got us on our way for the Oswego Canal transit. Unfortunately pictures are a little bit sparse from this day. As we proceeded […]

We departed Ilion around 7 AM after waiting for some light rain to stop and once again got underway with glassy smooth water and some mist floating over it. As we passed through the narrower sections of the canal we saw plenty of up-close nature We tied up for the night in Phoenix, NY after […]

We got an early start out of Schenectady with some mist still on the water, hoping to arrive at lock E8 as close to their 7 AM opening as possible. We again pushed for as much distance as we could reasonably cover, passing through Amsterdam and Little Falls. Knowing that we wouldn’t make it to […]

By Thursday morning we were finally ready to get back underway after getting the transmission working and tested on Wednesday and then sitting out some afternoon thunderstorms. On departure we made our first fuel stop of the trip and then got moving, unfortunately without Charlie as his time off work had run out. At this […]