Boats and More Boats

When we arrived in Waterford, NY, we found that there was to be a steamboat festival while we were there. Well, steamboats bring to mind big paddle wheelers on the Mississippi, but that’s not the kind of steamboats these are. These are two typical steamboats. I particularly liked the one to the right because they just used umbrellas instead of the more typical covering as the one above had.



This one was rather unique because it was an aluminum canoe(!) that had been converted to steam power.












The historic Erie Canal tug Urger was also there.



Here we are all headed out of the Oswego Canal into Lake Ontario

Our boats at Dave and Polly Brown’s dock, with Koko anchored out because it was too shallow at the dock for our keel.

One of the display rooms at the Clayton Antique Boat Museum. This is one of the most enjoyable museums we've ever been in and it is a real classy place. We really drooled over some of the boats displayed.

This is a rocking boat instead of a rocking horse that we saw for sale at the Antique Boat Museum. Hmmmm. Now that we have a grandchild……wonder if she’ll be needing a rocking boat.

Dave and Polly have an antique boat of their own and while we were visiting with them, there was an antique boat show in Henderson Harbor, so of course Dave entered his.

Polly and I got to ride with Dave back to their boathouse in Snowshoe Bay after the boat show over in Henderson.

Touring Motorcycle with Boat trailer

All of us in a lock on the Trent-Severn, Snappy rafted to Pogo, Rozie rafted to Koko.

Koko and Rozie on a foggy morn on the Trent-Severn

Our flotilla (left to right: Snappy, Pogopelli, Kokopelli, Rozinante) along the wall in Campbellford. Note the giant coin monument in amongst the trees. It is of a Toonie, the Canadian two dollar coin. The designer of the coin was from Campbellford.

Koko in Lock 43, gates opening. This was one of the bigger locks on the Trent.

Pogo and Rozie at anchor

This was a really nifty boat that shared our anchorage at Byng Inlet. Sure wouldn’t want to take care of all that gorgeous teak though!

Raft up in the Bad River of Rozie, Koko and Snappy. Pogo had stayed behind in Pointe au Baril Station and didn’t catch up to us until the next day.

This trawler passed us while we were in Killarney. A trawler using a sailboat as a dinghy???? That was a first. Name on the sailboat: Hot Tub

The Benjamin Islands in the North Channel are big granite boulders with water pathways surrounding the boulders. So you’d come around a corner in your dinghy while exploring and find what appeared to be a boat aground. Not. The water was deep and the boats would wiggle their way into a spot and tie off on pitons hammered into the rocks.

We are all previous or current Catalina 22 owners, so we were most impressed and interested when we came across this very well-canvassed Catalina 22. Gave us lots of ideas for our Catalina 22s.