NiagaraChillin wrote:
Awesome post and pics!! Did ya sleep in the cuddy for the entire trip, or hole up in a hotel/motel when ya could?
Cuddy all the way. After 10 nights, finally figured it all out
Borchik wrote:
Awesome pics, you must have come right by my place then, 4 miles east of Lock 24 on the Seneca
Yep - in fact we stopped for lunch at a nice restaurant with a patio right next to Lock 24 - there was some festival going on with a bathtub race and they released hundreds of plastic ducks down the river?
JDW250 wrote:
You must of had some great weather / water conditions for your trip. There was barely a ripple in the water in most of your pics.
Yeah it was great. But hot, hot, hot. That western section where we were stuck at 10 mph for 2+ days in 90+ heat was kinda tough...
LouC wrote:
Great trip and goes to show you a lot can be enjoyed with a small boat.
Well said - agree!
TX H210SS wrote:
You got to have brass ones cuz i pucker when on an unfamiliar lake
Thanks - the admiral suggests adding the word "big"...
boater wrote:
I've never been up to the restricted zone markers.
I'm pretty experienced boating in lots of different places, but thinking ahead to this did freak me out a bit! But once there, it was no big deal and actually kinda cool!
boater wrote:
I second TX H210SS comment, would like to see a breakdown of your trip, what ya packed, where ya put it, how much $$$ did it cost. I have toyed with the idea of cruisin up Ontario to the Thousand Islands. Was always figuring it was almost improbable, but after seeing your trip tho....hmmmm....
We've done a few of these longer trips, so we've kinda got it down pat - couple sheets that we roll out or up for sleeping in the cuddy along with a couple pillows. The Cuddy isn't huge (I'm 6' 3" and the admiral is 5' 10") so there's not a lot of extra room, but we get by - we use a portable fan that we clip to the cuddy door to circulate some air and it also drowns out the outside noise. But it was a heat wave the entire trip (averaging 95 almost every day) so I was thinking about Ric's post about installing AC in a cuddy! We ate at restaurants mostly, but we packed food and ice in the cooler for snacks and drinks. Same with restrooms and showers - almost every place we stopped for the night had both, which was great! Packed a small toolkit for emergencies, all required safety gear, electronics, charts, a new handheld VHF (thanks Cap'n) which actually was used frequently for contacting lockmasters and bridgemasters. Having said that, there isn;t a lot of storage space in a 205, so you learn to be efficient. I did a fair amount of research and planning which helped a lot, but still it's an adventure when you actually set out 'cus plans never anticipate everything...
On costs, I learned early on not to stress about the money. You need gas, and it's gonna cost you. Prices ranged from $4.50/gallon in NYC to $3.60 on the Hudson. In the west portion of the Erie, there are few marinas that sell gas and one that did chared $5.25/gallon. Ouch. We ate mostly at restuarants, but the food was great and prices not bad. Probably spent enough on beer to buy a small car.
blue dragon wrote:
Very very nice. Do have a question though, if you towed it down to NYC, How'd you get your trailer back to Canada ??
Xavid wrote:
What a great trip! So if you trailered to NYC, how did you get your trailer and tow vehicle back to Canada to pull it home at the end?
We drove down with my son and his GF - they stayed in a nice hotel near Ground Zero, while we stayed on the boat. When we left up the Hudson, he drove the trailer back home, then he came and met us when we finished back in Niagara Falls. It was great to have him help out, but not that his help didn't cost me... dinner three nights, brunch on Sunday, theatre tickets and gas home!
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spooky is definitely a word that came to mind seeing the mist!