Fall Cruising Advice Hudson River

[AJ]

I am planning to go up the Hudson from The Tappan Zee Bridge the first or
second week of October to catch the foliage change. If things go well, I
would want to make it as far as Troy, NY. I have put aside 4 days for this
trip.
Can anyone that has done this route before reccommend some good places to
dock and "not to miss" spots.
I have a Sea Ray 27' and draw about 30"

Thank You !

AJ

[Harlan Lachman]

Post by AJ
I am planning to go up the Hudson from The Tappan Zee Bridge the first or
second week of October to catch the foliage change. If things go well, I
would want to make it as far as Troy, NY. I have put aside 4 days for this
trip.
Can anyone that has done this route before reccommend some good places to
dock and "not to miss" spots.
I have a Sea Ray 27' and draw about 30"
Thank You !
AJ

AJ, too bad you don't have more time a week earlier. We did the trip the
other way (going south) We spent only six days and had time to go from
midway up Lake Champlain, down and back through the canals to Tarrytown
and spend a day going around Manhattan.

I am biased. Foliage in Vermont (especially if you make up to the Fort
Ticonderoga area is much more spectacular than anything except for
perhaps the West Point area (and maybe nicer because of the scale).

The spots we liked were doing the canals, just seeing the lighthouses
and sights along the Hudson, and stopping in Kingston for lunch and
relief from a mad skipper (me) who was pushing to hard.

We made it from the first harbor in the Canal to Tarrytown in one long
day with a long break in Kingston.

If you do make it to Vermont, and if it is still open, Westport is the
nicest Marina I know.

But, in other words, four days is plenty of time to do the trip you
propose. I did not find the Marinas north of Tarrytown and south of
Westport as nice as the one there. But we didn't stay in Kingston and it
looked real nice.

harlan

harlan

[Jim Brower]

Roundout Creek at Kingston, NY is very nice.
JIm

Post by AJ
I am planning to go up the Hudson from The Tappan Zee Bridge the first or
second week of October to catch the foliage change. If things go well, I
would want to make it as far as Troy, NY. I have put aside 4 days for this
trip.
Can anyone that has done this route before reccommend some good places to
dock and "not to miss" spots.
I have a Sea Ray 27' and draw about 30"
Thank You !
AJ