Catchup Time Again

The WiFi thing is patchy, not exactly sure why, its an ongoing mystery. Right now we are at the Poughkeepsie Yacht Club not exactly the middle of nowhere but close and WiFi is good to go hence the update so why couldn't we get on at Kingston?

We left Waterford under overcast skies but no rain, well it was mist really. First stop was Troy Lock, not a lot to hold onto but we made it anyway.

We got a call from Bob on Easy Go wondering if we wanted to try the DIY crane at Castleton, my gut said no so we passed on the idea. Seeing a lot of Bald Eagles which is a good thing means the river must be in pretty good shape.



 This is the Light House at Athens there are a few more of these as we go further south, this really is a Light House right!

Arrived at Catskill Riverview Marine at 3:10pm and took the mast off the boat and put it on the dock so we could work on it. The picture below shows the set up - we were so busy we forgot to take pictures of ourselves. This guy (Michelle) was from Montreal. Its a popular place to get your mast stepped but was hit pretty hard by Hurricane Irene last year. Anyway we had everything prepared to go  tomorrow before we hit the hay.

Mast Up

Couldn't help myself, I was up showered and dressed by 7:00am then had to wait till gone 10:00 before the guys were ready to put the mast up. Oh well they did a fantastic job, best fitting of the collar since we got the boat. Ron and I did the rigging while Mary went to town for groceries. By the time we had started to put the sails on her the sky had turned nasty and wouldn't you know it it was thundering and lightening as we finished the job, but she's a boat again.



At 4:15pm we were on our way to Kingston (its a free dock) the weather cleared but bit was cooler and dark as we picked our way in the Rondout Creek to Kingston.

Before we got there though we did get pictures of both the Sun Set and a Moon Rise and what I think is a neat picture of Bob and Roger on Easy Go off in the distance just before the Kingston - Rhinecliffe Bridge.