Eastbound back through the Canal System with stops at Ilion, Canajoharie, and Scotia. Ilion is the home of Remington Arms. There is a museum at the factory, unfortunately the museum was closed for the Labor Day
Canajoharie is the home of Beech-Nut Packing company. Bartlett Arkell founded the company in the 1800’s. He was a local native, and was evidently a staunch home town supporter. His Arkell museum houses American art by Winslow Homer, Andrew Wyeth and others. A walk up the hill took us to the Arkell family home, a huge mansion that is now a nursing home.
Wednesday morning we headed east, and stayed at a public dock in the village of Scotia. The public park there is delightful, nicely kept and huge. We saw many very nice parks throughout the Mohawk Valley. The floating dock at Scotia is about 50 ft long, no hookups, but no charge for tying up. We had a personal welcome from the Sergeant of the Scotia PD, just stopping by to greet us! Not much in the town, but a nice stopover.
Thursday night is in Albany, back at the Albany Yacht club. Folks there are nice, the facility is well kept. We’ll head south down the Hudson in the morning towards Kingston, keeping an eye on the weather forcasts, especially the track of TS Hanna, which is predicted to come up the east coast Saturday. We’ll probably stay in Kingston to wait out the passing of the storm before resuming travel south. Local predictions are for heavy rains Saturday with gusty winds 20-30 kts. Probably a good day to stay put!