This is a video & slide show of our trip in 2008 on Black Diamond. We cruised the Erie Canal and down the Hudson river to New York the last week of August. The trip started near Toronto, Port Credit, and ended near New York City. With our Jeanneau 39iP, Sailboat. This trip served as [Read More →]
Blogging aboard Black Diamond! Sailing logs of Black Diamond, a Jeanneau Sailboat.
* VIDEO * Toronto to New York, Via Erie Canal and the Hudson River.
April 1, 2012 — s/v Black DiamondSafe Arrival to Toronto, Home port of PCYC.
May 26, 2009 — s/v Black DiamondJust completed close to a 1,000 kilometer trek back to Toronto. Continuing up the Hudson River to the now familiar Hop-o-nose Marina in Catskills, New York. Very friendly, professional staff and ownership. The only place I would recommend on the Hudson for stepping your mast and storing your wooden mast supports, or even building them [Read More →]
New York City to Toronto here we go…
May 19, 2009 — s/v Black Diamond
I arrived Saturday May 16th, in the evening, just enough time to have a nice dinner in Nyack, I love this town. Maybe its just because I have been here so many times now, it feels almost like home. The restaurants are great, and the people are friendly. It has the old US homey town feeling. The [Read More →]
Day 1 – PCYC, Toronto to the Oswego Canal
October 24, 2008 — s/v Black Diamond
August 21st, 2008 – Port Credit Yacht Club to Oswego across Lake Ontario. Dear Friends and Family, Our friends and family have expressed an interest in our trip and asked that we keep some sort of a blog to keep in touch. We thought that we would send periodical e-mails about our whereabouts, and the [Read More →]
Day 2 – Oswego Canal to Lake Onieda
October 22, 2008 — s/v Black Diamond
August 22nd, Oswego to Lake Onieda NY After our morning coffee Roxane cooked us a nice breakfast of bacon and eggs, we set out to the town dock. There we hooked up to shore power and charged our batteries for an hour or so, because the Oswego’s Yacht club does not provide power or water for [Read More →]
Day 3 – Lake Oneida to Utica, NY
October 22, 2008 — s/v Black Diamond
Saturday August 23rd, Lake Oneida to Utica NY Departing at 7AM this morning, we made it across Lake Oneida by 10AM. We tied up at the Sylvana Beach Town Docks, and headed down to the beach. Thomas and Alexander enjoyed going for a swim and building sand castles. Thomas was fascinated by a man with a [Read More →]
Day 4 – Erie Canal past Little Falls.
October 22, 2008 — s/v Black Diamond
Sunday August 24th, Erie Canal past Little Falls. Again this morning we got up at about 7am and left the lock by 7:45am. We motored all morning and stopped in Little Falls, NY for lunch. A very cute town, many antique shops and little restaurants. The canal is blocked from most [Read More →]
Day 5 – 33 Locks through the Canals!
October 22, 2008 — s/v Black Diamond
August 25th 2008, 33 Locks through the Canals before we reached the Hudson River. We left the dock this morning just after 7AM, and headed down the Erie canal towards Waterford NY. We got off to a very good start and arrived at Amsterdam NY by about 11AM. We tied up at the town docks, [Read More →]
Day 6 – Hudson River, Waterford to Castleton
October 22, 2008 — s/v Black Diamond
August 26th, On the Hudson, Waterford to Castleton. After an overnight stop in Waterford, we left with full water tanks, and fully charged batteries. We were unable to get diesel fuel in Waterford so after a few miles down the Hudson River we stopped in Troy for fuel. We continued on, through our last [Read More →]
Day 7-8 – Hop-O-Nose Marina in Catskill, NY
October 22, 2008 — s/v Black Diamond
August 27th-28th, The mast is up! Still more work to do! We are very thankful for beautiful weather (actually it’s been sunny since we left Toronto, over a week ago) The kid’s are enjoying the pool and walking around Catskill while I continue to work on the boat. Roxane made it to the [Read More →]
Day 9 – Swimming at the Hop-O-Nose Marina
October 22, 2008 — s/v Black Diamond
August 29th, 2008 Enjoying a day at the pool at the Hop-O-Nose Marina. This morning was a bit more relaxed for us. We were able to wake up slowly, enjoy our coffee and a swim in the pool, while we waited for high tide. At 1:00 pm, we left the dock, in Catskill, [Read More →]
Day 10 – A stop over in Kingston, NY.
October 22, 2008 — s/v Black Diamond
August 30th, 2008 After traveling up a creek, we arrived in Kingston NY at 4:30 pm. This is another town with a great happening waterfront, with many on-the-water restaurants, music in the park, and lots of docking for boats. We spent the rest of the day exploring the waterfront before we stopped to [Read More →]
Day 11 – Sailing at Haverstraw on the Hudson.
October 22, 2008 — s/v Black Diamond
Sept 1-2nd, 2008 Roxane and boys flew out this morning on a 9:30AM flight. I escorted them to a taxi that was waiting outside the marina at 5:30AM, and sent them on their way. They had no trouble at all, it was about a 1.5 hour drive to JFK Airport and a 1 hour flight [Read More →]
Day 12 – The Saga Continues at the Tappan Zee Bridge
October 22, 2008 — s/v Black Diamond
Sept 2nd, 2008, A mooring under the Tapanzee Bridge So the saga is just about complete for this leg of the trip…. I headed down the Hudson River in the darkness of night at about 9:30PM. A large barge and containership went by (these ships came within 1 knotical mile of me, or less). I [Read More →]
Day 13 – Peterson’s Boat Yard in Upper Nyack
October 22, 2008 — s/v Black Diamond
Sept, 2-3rd, 2008 Peterson’s Boat Yard – Black Diamond’s home for the next 2 months. I received a reasonable quote from Peterson’s Boat Yard, to repair the damage to the bow, from the incident in the locks. I decided to haul Black Diamond out of the water and store her on land, in order to [Read More →]
