Schenectady Yacht Club 06/30/10 & 07/01/10 to Amsterdam NY

We are still on the Mohawk River portion of the Erie Canal.  This day's travel took us to the Town of Amsterdam, NY where we stayed at the Riverlink Park Marina.  The marina and restaurant are leased from the city by a nice young couple named Renee and Bob.  This is a project they are undertaking at a youngish age and I think they will do well.  They put lots of planning and effort into the venture while we were there.

To give an idea of what floats down the Mohawk.  This is what accumulated at a support for a bridge we went under shortly after leaving the SYC.

Abandoned factory on the south shore of the Mohawk.  Assuming a town was built around this shuttered operation, one wonders what that community is now like.

One of the many small highway bridges crossing the Mohawk.  This one has the channel markers done differently than I have seen them.  Notice there as a green marker on the left pillar and both a green and a red on the middle pillar and a red on the right pillar.  Normally this would have only the green and the red markers on the center pillar and the right pillar only indicating that up bound traffic should proceed thru the right hand opening.  The assumption is that the other side of the bridge would be properly marked on the left hand opening for downbound traffic to use.

This kind of scenery is one of the delights of the trip.

From the dock at Riverlink Marina looking at an old mill on the north shore of the river.  Same question applies to this factory as was posed a few pictures up.

This is one of a side by side pair of towers/observation platforms that lead up to the walkway you see at the left side.  At the right is the marina office and the restaurant set up for entertainment and outside dining.

This is the walk way (lenghty) that crosses a double set of very active railroad tracks and leads to the roof of a largely shuttered mall.  The other end of the walkway is locked after dark.  I did find a "hip pocket" sized empty whisky bottle lying about at the top of the left tower.  I did all a favor and disposed of it.

View down of our end of the marina dock from one of the towers.

Pat with laundry basket.  Wonder where she is taking that?

As we were leaving Amsterdam, we managed to get a picture of the Osprey.  Notice the name of the dingy.  We had been locking thru many of the locks with this couple from Maine.  We finally got to meet them at Riverlink.  Their names are Judy and Woody.  Woody bought the hull surplus from the navy.  He built this boat out of it.