CODA : Quiet day on the canal wall.
19 May 2025
Waterford Visitors Center free docks, Waterford, Erie Canal, New York
I started the day with a thermos full of free coffee from the Visitors Center.
The flooding from Hurricane Irene is forever marked on the wall. The Visitors Center recovers from Springtime floods every year (albeit not as severe). I did hear from the staff that I could use the tugboat power post (it is 4 feet tall and set back from the docking wall) if we wanted electricity.
Marc- The sun came out this morning and I went right to work cleaning up more teak gunwale and finishing it with polyurethane. The process is a labor of love and requires about 10 coats of finish.
I changed the sheets in the forward cabin bunk for the new crew and cleaned the boat up a bit. For lunch I invited my neighbor Benoit over for a Cabot cheddar cheeseburger. We needed an hour long afternoon walk covering 5 miles to work it off. The temperature has plummeted from 64 degrees this morning to 47 degrees this evening and I expect to turn on the diesel furnace shortly.
Teak gunwale work.
Now this was a surprise. Herman Melville, the great seafaring author, actually wrote his first two books 160 miles inland from the sea in Troy, New York. His house is nothing to write home about.
The Canal Authority gave everyone here waiting to pass through the canal a burgee. Nice touch.
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