Herkimer & Perkins: Building Backyard Boats in Buffalo, NY

Messing About in Boats, Boots, and Byways:

Archive of Erie Canal Journal entries for 2002: O4 August 02

One of our favorite destinations is the Erie Canal, which originally began in downtown Buffalo, and later when the canal was widened and renamed the Erie Canal Barge Canal, the canal began, and still begins, at North Tonawanda on the Niagara River where Tonawanda Creek empties into the river. We have biked in five-mile bites from Lockport to Brockport, and we've rowed a time or two, too.

We launch the Harmonica, our canalboat

A pair of geese swim by.

04 August 02: We launched the Harmonica canalboat that I built today. We used the ramp at Middleport. Stayed out about two hours. It was hot but not so humid, about 84 degrees. The sky was clear and clean. There were many boats and lots of people out enjoying the day. Saw lots of fish jumping, too. No wind to speak of.

Herkimer

& Perkins

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