Statue of Liberty Are we there yet? Clay, Jim & Jan

Jim & Jan Galloway joined us for the next leg of our trip. We left Sunday afternoon, heading down the sound to Stamford where we took another mooring for the night. Our goal was to catch the current running down the East river on Monday morning. Once we got through the East river, the current coming down the Hudson was against us, so we anchored again behind the Statue of Liberty for the night. We caught the current on the Hudson and rode it all the way to Bannerman's Island where we anchored for the night. We were trying to get Jim & Jan to Albany by Friday because they had a square dancing event to attend. Clay wanted to stop in Saugerties because you could walk to everything right off the docks (as he remembered it). Well we past Kingston on the way to Saugerties, and as we pulled in Clay said it didn't look familiar, because it wasn't. It was Kingston that we had stopped at last time. Oh well, it was also a quaint little town that was a long walk uphill all the way. We did enjoy it. On Thursday morning we got up and off to Castleton On Hudson. This is the place to take the mast down in preparation for the Erie Canal. With the help of Jan and Jim, we used the boat club's hoist and got the mast down and secured in short order.

Sleepy Hollow Lighthouse Hudson-Athens Lighthouse Saugerties Lighthouse

During our trip we discovered black yuk coming from the engine compartment. Clay had just changed a belt on the alternator and it was a little loose, so he thought maybe that was the culprit, so he tightened, but it didn't stop the mess. Clay would clean it up as best he could and a couple hours later it was just as bad. Finally when we stopped in Saugerties, Jim found a hole in the bottom of the exhaust pipe. Clay hurriedly got on the phone and ordered the part to be delivered to the boat club on Friday. After we got the mast down, we were waiting for the part to arrive - Jan & Jim ran us to a hardware store and lunch at a neat dinner in town (sorry I can't remember the name). When we got back to the boat yard and located the part that had been delivered to a Carlton Serlgen at the same address but different location (really weird), Clay and Jim had it put back together amazingly fast. With lots of Go-Jo the guys cleaned up, it was time to say our goodbyes to Jan & Jim - off to their square dance.

Pete Seeger's Clearwater, Esopus Lighthouse

Clay and I stayed another night at Castleton, got the boat scrubbed down and most of the black yuk off. In the morning we headed up the river, stopped at a dock behind a grocery store for supplies and then to Waterford. When we arrived, we were pleasantly surprised to find Jim & Jan ready to take our lines at the dock. They drove up from Albany to spend the morning with us before their next session. We walked up to the first lock and checked it out before they had to leave. Clay and I walked a few blocks into town and did a load of laundry and had dinner. One of the volunteers at the Welcome Center told Clay about this great dinner and that they had the best breakfast, so Clay had me up before 6:00 a.m. so we could have breakfast and be back for the 7:00 lock opening. They did have really great pancakes.