June 14 -- At the top of the Hudson River

We cruised all day in the rain.  It was about 50 degrees, cold, windy and raining most of the day.  Grover piloted the boat with his eagle eyes looking through the fog.  We past Albany, NY and made it to Troy where the start of the NY Canal System starts and the locking through begins.   We decided to stay at Troy City docks because the crusing guide rated it fairly high, but that was not the case.   We had a precarious docking because one dockhand instructed us at one place and the dockmaster motioned us to another place.  It turns out that the dock hand did not even work here, but helped out for tips !!  Unfortunately, I decided to fuel up here, even though this place was run down.  And, they had just run out of fuel because a 92 foot Lazzara had just taken over 1000 gallons of fuel -- we waited over an hour while that boat fueled up and then we waited for the fuel truck.  So, I am nervous about what kind of infectous fuel disease might be getting to the engines.  That will be another adventure.   The photos below show one of the fabulous lighthouses along the Hudson River, and then Grover the River Pilot, and then us at the Troy docks trying to make things work.