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Places to dock and camp on the river?
Hi-
I’m planning an art-float this summer along the river with 7 boats of varying sizes from 45ft down to a canoe. We’d like to dock in towns along the way and do performances. Do you know of a good online resource for finding public docking spots or who to ask if we can dock? We leave from Troy and float down through New York Harbor, then up the East River.
Thanks!
http://www.switchbacksea.org
-A’yen
By: A'yen on July 7, 2008
at 4:15 pm
Hi A’yen,
A good resourse for marinas and facilities along the Hudson River is http://www.travelhudsonvalley.com.
You can even request free River maps on that site which would be nice to pass out to everyone on your trip.
The NY Harbor and East River is not very well developed in terms of public docking. Two places I would reach out to are Chelsea Piers and my own home port the Shipyard Marina.
http://www.chelseapiers.com/
http://www.shipyardmarina.com
Best of luck!
By: iaconok on July 7, 2008
at 5:03 pm