Photos were taken by Peggy Huckel, Bill Manthey, and David Manthey, and are copyright by the person who took them. Text is by myself, David Manthey.<\/p>\n\n\n
This year\u2019s plan is relatively simple \u2013 row down Lake George, possibly portage to Lake Champlain, and participate in Fort Ticonderoga\u2019s \u201cMontcalm\u2019s Cross\u201d event.\u00a0 This simplicity belies a complexity of logistics.\u00a0 The Fort\u2019s bateau is joining us, but relying on our trailer and transport, which gives us three boats to transport on two trailers.\u00a0 Once near Fort Ticonderoga, we want to position the boats for a portaging demonstration.\u00a0 This demonstration also required the bateau wagon.\u00a0 Further, the carpenters at Fort Ticonderoga want to build an artillery raft which we would need to tow at times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To add to the boat and trailer logistics, the exact number of rowers for Ticonderoga\u2019s boat was still in flux until almost the last moment.\u00a0 We would have seven rowers for two days, then somewhere between 8 and 10 for one day.\u00a0 We decided to take both of our boats for the whole trip, though perhaps this was overly ambitious when we had just seven rowers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In retrospect, it would be best in the future to not run a boat with only a crew of three \u2013 it is hard to give any one rower a break without losing way against a head wind.\u00a0 We\u2019ve done enough trips, that we don\u2019t need to prove that we can do something despite it being hard; we know we can, and now we can choose when to do hard things and when to take it easier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since last Saturday was the Canal Fest at the Mabee Farm, our boats were still at our dock on Tuesday morning.\u00a0 Around 10 in the morning, Kevin, Rick, Peggy, Harvey, Susanne, and myself met at the Farm.\u00a0 As usual, we first moved the trucks and trailers from the Farm to the boat launch.\u00a0 We then rowed the DeSager<\/em> and the Bobbie G<\/em> from the dock to the boat launch and put them on the trailers.\u00a0 This was a pleasant morning row.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Harvey and Susanne departed \u2013 they weren\u2019t coming on the main rowing trip.\u00a0 Peggy left to go home and intended to be picked up by us en route.\u00a0 Rick, Kevin, and myself drove to my house to pick up the bateau wagon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The bateau wagon comes apart in five awkward pieces, plus miscellaneous fastenings, tools, and wheel chocks.\u00a0 The three main pieces went on my car\u2019s roof rack; this is ever so much easier when done by two people who aren\u2019t short.\u00a0 The wheels were transported in one of the boats.\u00a0 While we were loading the wagon, Heather supplied us with refreshing watermelon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the meantime, Peggy\u2019s car had an issue with the heat shield, which altered how we were to meet up with her.\u00a0 We proceeded to a diner along our already planned route for lunch and to wait for Peggy.\u00a0 She showed up in good order, with her car issue resolved.\u00a0 We then proceeded to Lake George Battleground Campground in the two trucks with trailers and my car with bateau wagon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The person manning the campground office reveled in the bureaucracy of the New York campground system.\u00a0 This seems a tedious waste of time without much benefit \u2013 I don\u2019t grasp the utility of knowing which person would be on which site of the multiple sites I had reserved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Once we had checked in, we pitched one tent, then offloaded the trucks and anything stored in the boats that we needed overnight.\u00a0 We stashed things we wanted out of weather or sight in the tent.\u00a0 Once we had done this, we drove the short distance to the boat ramp at the Million Dollar Beach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Due to the vaugaries of Lake George Village, we can leave boats on the town dock, but not between the hours of 5 a.m. and 9 a.m.\u00a0 We can\u2019t leave boats on the boat launch dock, and the beach areas are restricted to boats.\u00a0 We tried to get an exemption for any of these.\u00a0 The people from the town and the park were all friendly, but each felt that they didn\u2019t have the power to give an exemption.\u00a0 Perhaps if we had tried harder we could have found a way, but we didn\u2019t do so for this trip.\u00a0 As such, we need to move the boats from the launch to the town dock, pay a dockage fee, then move them off the dock by 5 a.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After launching each boat, we sent Kevin and Rick away with the trucks and empty trailers.\u00a0 We\u2019ll leave Kevin\u2019s truck with the bunk trailer at Mossy Point.\u00a0 Rick and Kevin will pick up the Fort\u2019s boat at the DEC launch at Ticonderoga Ferry along with their crew.\u00a0 They drove off in good order.\u00a0 I communicated with the Fort about our timing so that their rowers would have their boat at the DEC launch at the appropriate time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n While Rick and Kevin moved vehicles, Peggy and I rowed one boat at a time from the boat launch dock to the town dock.\u00a0 This is around 3\/4 of a mile, and goes past the swimming beach, the dog beach, and the steamboat dock.\u00a0 After moving the first boat, we walked back to the boat launch and repeated with the second.\u00a0 We talked with a ranger who knew a fellow boater.\u00a0 Peggy also tried to get permission to use the town dock after 5 a.m. to no avail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Once we had rowed the boats over to the town dock, we walked back to our campsite.\u00a0 We had erected another tent when our additional crew arrived \u2013 Reb, Bill, and Judy.\u00a0 We finished putting up tents and made a fire in the braziers for dinner.\u00a0 We did the standard chores we always need the evening before the rowing trip \u2013 filling water jugs, sorting food, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Rick, Kevin, and four crew from Fort Ticonderoga showed up in good order along with the Fort\u2019s bateau.\u00a0 We got them checked in at the campground \u2013 this time with a minimum of bureaucracy as a different attendant was on duty.\u00a0 They are one site over from us; we would run this way for the trip \u2013 near but not on top of each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We had dinner and sorted more gear.\u00a0 Since we have to launch the Fort\u2019s bateau in the morning, we used it as a temporary transport for things we wanted to put in our boats.\u00a0 Those who wanted to row in the morning took a stroll down to the town docks to make sure they knew where we would need to go in the early hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A tiring day, and we haven\u2019t really started yet.\u00a0 We rowed each boat around 2.8 miles today between taking them out at the Farm and moving them to the town dock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We woke up around 4:20 to make sure we had enough time to get to the town dock before 5 a.m.\u00a0 We left Judy and Kevin at camp to make breakfast while we moved boats; the rest of our crew walked down the hill from the campsite to the town dock.\u00a0 Unsurprisingly, no one else was about at this time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There were three other boats at the town dock besides our two bateaux.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know what their owners do; perhaps if they see a mooring enforcement person, they just motor away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We got the oars up, then crewed out the boats.\u00a0 We were off the dock and rowing 5 minutes before we strictly needed to be.\u00a0 The row to the boat launch dock was pleasant and misty.\u00a0 After tying up at the launch dock, we walked back to camp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After a breakfast of Rolf\u2019s sausages and eggs we struck our tents.\u00a0 The ground was fairly dirty and damp enough that various bits of plant detrious stuck to the tents.\u00a0 We loaded all of our gear into the Fort\u2019s bateau for transport.\u00a0 At the neighboring campsite, the Fort\u2019s crew was up and ready faster than we were \u2013 they are travelling light, plus didn\u2019t get up to move boats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We drove or walked down to the boat launch, passed through the boat inspection station, then launched.\u00a0 After launching, we shifted gear between boats until all was sorted out.\u00a0 The drivers moved the cars from the boat launch to a parking area where we could leave the vehicles for several nights, then walked back to the boat launch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A reporter from the Lake George Mirror<\/em> stopped by to take pictures of us and talk a little.\u00a0 They ended up running an article about our trip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Shortly after 8, we pushed off and started rowing.\u00a0 Kevin, Reb, and Judy are in the DeSager<\/em>.\u00a0 Rick, Bill, Peggy, and myself are in the Bobbie G<\/em>.\u00a0 The Fort\u2019s bateau has their crew of four.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The weather is shredded low-lying clouds nestled in the hills with light wind.\u00a0 The wind is fluky but mostly from the south or southeast, so we put up our sails.\u00a0 The Fort\u2019s bateau doesn\u2019t have a sail, so they were in for rowing all day.\u00a0 Off we went.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Determined to use the wind as much as possible, we initially did very little rowing.\u00a0 The Fort\u2019s boat kept abreast of us under oars, sometimes getting slightly ahead and sometimes falling slightly astern.\u00a0 Very few other craft were out at the time; a lake patrol boat was about all we saw for the first hour or so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Naturally we passed some of the lovely islands in the lake.\u00a0 The low clouds made it easy to see which islands were closer and which were further; on a clear day this is much harder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By 10 a.m. the wind had a distinctly eastern component.\u00a0 Before, when the wind was nearly due south DeSager<\/em> with her square sail was faster than the Bobbie G<\/em> with the lug sail.\u00a0 As the wind veered to the side, the speed advantage switched; the lug works better on the beam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We saw a handful of small sailboats with kids sailing around.\u00a0 A small school of them came out close to us, tacked neatly, and scudded back toward shore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Shortly after noon we neared the Sagamore Hotel.\u00a0 Here the Morgan<\/em> passed close by.\u00a0 Peggy knew the captain, and we exchanged a brief conversation.\u00a0 The Mohican<\/em> also passed us and fired a small salute gun as it went by.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As we approached the Narrows we loitered eating lunch.\u00a0 Lunch was sausage, cheese, fruit, and peppers.\u00a0 Over the years we\u2019ve gotten much better at having vegetables as part of our in-transit meals.\u00a0 As the Bobbie G<\/em> was ahead of the other two boats, we dallied a bit to give them a chance to come up.\u00a0 We wanted to make sure no one headed into Northwest Bay, as it would require working back against the wind to return.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As the Fort\u2019s boat reached the Narrows, it started to rain and the wind failed.\u00a0 As the rain was warm, this wasn\u2019t unpleasant.\u00a0 Fortunately the predicted thunder and lightning didn\u2019t materialize.\u00a0 We continued under oars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We passed by the various islands in the Narrows, then rowed the several miles to the next island group.\u00a0 Our destination for the evening came up relatively quickly.\u00a0 Floating Battery Island has several campsites.\u00a0 We had reserved three on the eastern side of the island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The rain had mostly abated, though it came and went a bit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Once we had the boats tied up, we examined the campsites to pick out where we wanted our tents.\u00a0 Each site has a wooden platform.\u00a0 We put up a tent on each of these, wedging the stakes between the wooden boards as we could.\u00a0 Since it had been raining, other areas were muddy or weedy in turns.\u00a0 We found enough space for a few more tents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We watched osprey fish between us and the main land.\u00a0 We enjoyed the ragged clouds and occasional shower.\u00a0 We were amused by a duck that appeared to be a cross-breed between a mallard and a black duck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The island campgrounds are administered by different ranger offices, and, for some reason best known to them, you are supposed to check in at the administration office, even though the campgrounds have been reserved in advance.\u00a0 For Floating Battery Island, this would mean an extra 6.5 miles of rowing to check in at Narrow Island and return \u2013 not very practical.\u00a0 While we were setting up camp, a park boat motored within shouting distance of the dock, and a ranger rudely told us that we had to register at Narrow Island the next morning and that \u201cit is not a choice\u201d.\u00a0 To give her the benefit of the doubt, perhaps she had just dealt with someone unpleasant.\u00a0 However, this exchange was unsavory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kevin fixed a delicious dinner of chicken in onion sauce and rice with spinach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After dinner we speculated with the Ticonderoga crew on how to improvise a sail for their boat.\u00a0 We lent them the \u201ckitchen table\u201d (an all-purpose piece of canvas that we carry), some spare tent poles, and some rope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We all turned in early \u2013 the 4 a.m. wake-up call had caught up with us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Total distance today around 17.4 miles for each boat, bringing the trip total to 20.2 miles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A relatively lazy start to the day.\u00a0 The forecast is for light northerly winds abating sometime between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. depending on the prediction source and then veering to the west and south.\u00a0 Given this, a slow start will take less time and effort than a fast start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The weather cleared overnight, and the day was promising to be hot and sunny.\u00a0 We breakfasted on bacon and eggs.\u00a0 We struck camp leisurely and loaded the boats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As we were doing this, a park boat came by and a friendly ranger asked us to register when we passed Narrow Island.\u00a0 Although the request was ultimately the same as from yesterday\u2019s ranger, there was a world of difference in the tone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We set out some time between 9 and 10, rowing into the slight head wind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Once on the lake, we saw a strange maintenance craft with a long passerelle on the front.\u00a0 When we first saw it, there were two crew members and a ladder laid flat on the passerelle.\u00a0 Later, the ladder and one crew member were gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The row seemed quite slow into the wind.\u00a0 The sun was quite hot.\u00a0 We passed small islands just off of Huletts Landing.\u00a0 Some kids were swimming off of on idyllic spot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After two hours or so of rowing, we reached Narrow Island and dutifully reported to the campground office.\u00a0 They were very pleasant.\u00a0 While we were fulfilling our bureaucratic duties, the Fort\u2019s bateau passed by at a distance; they sensibly weren\u2019t stopping.\u00a0 When we pushed off again, we did a morning rum and cookie break.\u00a0 DeSager<\/em> came alongside, and we proceeded on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here we let Peggy steer and took turns rowing.\u00a0 Despite the forecast, the head wind would continue most of the day.\u00a0 We frequently refilled canteens.\u00a0 We occasionally drank shrub.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This was a classic long day of rowing, averaging just under 2 miles an hour, mostly due to the head wind.\u00a0 We sang songs.\u00a0 We told stories.\u00a0 We admired the hills, the water, and the camps.\u00a0 We waved at passing boats.\u00a0 We rowed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Peggy had her copy of Pedini\u2019s guide book.\u00a0 We tried to get Bill to use it to give us commentary on visible landmarks, but it wasn\u2019t a brilliant success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We passed Slim Point, failed to really notice the town of Hague, went by the Waltonian Island group.\u00a0 At one point we spotted the Ticonderoga boat.\u00a0 The DeSager<\/em> gradually slipped away behind us, though we could see her right until we rounded Friends Point.\u00a0 We gradually worked our way into Cooks Bay and to Rogers Rock Campground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We tied up to the dock at the campground\u2019s boat launch around 5:30.\u00a0 I went off to check in and see where we could move the boats to be near our campsite, leaving the others at the dock to make sure the other boats didn\u2019t pass by.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After return to the dock, we moved the Bobbie G<\/em> to a spot on the shore at the bottom of a hill leading to our campsites.\u00a0 This hill didn\u2019t seem that bad when I had selected the campsites; now it seemed quite steep.\u00a0 We left Bill on the dock to direct other boats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As we were unloading the Bobbie G<\/em>, the Fort\u2019s boat arrived.\u00a0 We signaled them to land near us, which they did.\u00a0 Oddly, we didn\u2019t see DeSager<\/em>, though I had expected that they were less than a half hour behind us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here we started to fret.\u00a0 Peggy remembered to check her phone \u2013 the crew of the DeSager<\/em> had tried to call.\u00a0 We called them.\u00a0 Despite having been to Rogers Rock Campground on at least three previous occasions, they had misremembered which side of Rogers Rock it was on and had passed by.\u00a0 The wind had finally turned southerly, and they were under sail a mile and a half north of where they needed to be.\u00a0 This was a mild fiasco, as they were headed to Mossy Point and our gear was split between the boats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the meantime, Tim arrived.\u00a0 He would be joining us on Friday.\u00a0 This was the saving grace of the situation.\u00a0 First he drove to fetch Bill from the dock so he didn\u2019t have to walk from the launch to the campsite.\u00a0 Next he helped lug gear up the hill as we set up camp and started making dinner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n While DeSager <\/em>continued north, we made a contingency plan.\u00a0 Since we had Kevin\u2019s truck and the bunk trailer at Mossy Point, I had a copy of his car key, and Tim had a car, we had a solution.\u00a0 We conferred via phone with the DeSager<\/em> crew once they had arrived.\u00a0 We left dinner to cook under the watchful eyes of Rick, Bill, and Judy.\u00a0 The Ticonderoga crew was contentedly setting up their own camp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tim drove myself to Mossy Point.\u00a0 Here we used Kevin\u2019s truck to pull the DeSager<\/em> out of the water.\u00a0 We loaded the crew into the truck and car, then drove back together to Rogers Rock campground.\u00a0 This took a long time, even though the distances weren\u2019t great.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Back at camp, we finished setting up tents and laying out bedding.\u00a0 We finished cooking dinner \u2013 a simple ham, potato, carrot, and ginger boil.\u00a0 We ate ravenously and discussed the plans for tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After three or four very fretful hours, we had managed to recover our situation.\u00a0 All of the boats and crews were together.\u00a0 We went to our much needed beds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Total distance for the day, 14.2 miles for Bobbie G<\/em> and 16.6 miles for DeSager<\/em>.\u00a0 Total distance for the trip 34.4 and 36.8 miles, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We breakfasted on oyster hash and scrambled eggs.\u00a0 Once fortified, we set about recovering from yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We struck camp and loaded some gear into vehicles rather than lugging it down the hill to the Bobbie G<\/em>.\u00a0 We rowed the Bobbie G<\/em> over to the boat launch.\u00a0 The Fort\u2019s boat joined us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We trailered the DeSager <\/em>to the boat launch and refloated her.\u00a0 We then transferred some gear between the boats.\u00a0 We sent an away team to return the boat trailer and truck back to Mossy Point.\u00a0 They returned in Tim\u2019s car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Finally, we were sorted out and where we had intended to be last evening.\u00a0 The three boats were at Rogers Rock campground and a truck and trailer at Mossy Point.\u00a0 We set out a little after 10 in the morning.\u00a0 We now had four people in each boat, Tim having added in to the DeSager<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For DeSager<\/em>, this was\u00a0 repeat of last evening, but without the worry of being in the wrong place.\u00a0 For the Bobby G<\/em> and the Fort\u2019s boat, this was on plan.\u00a0 We passed the impressive Roger\u2019s Rock, then gradually worked our way down the narrowing lake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The distance to Mossy Point is only 4 miles, and we covered it easily, each boat staying in sight of the others.\u00a0 Mossy Point appears suddenly around a corner, and we headed in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After tying up, the Fort Ticonderoga crew attired themselves in full military kit.\u00a0 Tim joined them, and they all marched off toward the Fort, a land distance of four miles or so.\u00a0 The weather is very hot today, and they were wearing many layers of wool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We used the truck and trailer to take out the Bobbie G<\/em>.\u00a0 Kevin and Reb drove her away to position her along the road in Fort Ticonderoga for a portaging demonstration tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n While waiting, we watched an in-production Hacker craft launch and then recover to test engine and pump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Eventually, Kevin returned and we took out the DeSager<\/em>.\u00a0 Tim returned and drove the various drivers back to Lake George to fetch the other truck and the two cars we had left there.\u00a0 We drove back to Mossy Point and, hours later, loaded the Fort\u2019s boat on the flatbed trailer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Finally, we all ended up at Fort Ticonderoga.\u00a0 The heat was intense.\u00a0 We very gradually got all three boats positioned on the ground near our camp for tomorrow\u2019s event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We got camp set up, now joined with many more reenactors who had arrived via more conventional means.\u00a0 We assembled the portage wagon.\u00a0 We watched as some of the Fort\u2019s carpenters worked on a raft they hoped to use for transporting a cannon on Sunday.\u00a0 We sweated in the heat and swatted mosquitoes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Our fellow crew member Joanna was at the Fort and joined us in setting things up and shifting boats about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We all went out to the Burgoyne Inn for dinner.\u00a0 A long day, despite a short rowing distance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Total distance for the day, 4.1 miles for Bobbie G<\/em> and 3.8 miles for DeSager<\/em>.\u00a0 Total distance for the trip 38.5 and 40.6 miles, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On Saturday we did some portaging demonstrations.\u00a0 We had a lot of reenectors helping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For the DeSager<\/em>, we picked up the boat walked with it together.\u00a0 Being comparatively light and empty, this was relatively easy and quick.\u00a0 The ground was fair, and it wasn\u2019t much trouble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The much bigger Fort\u2019s bateau couldn\u2019t be carried the same way.\u00a0 Here we did the iterative lift-and-shift approach.\u00a0 Everyone heaved together, picking up the boat and shifting it forward a foot or so and then set it back down without shifting their footing.\u00a0 This is relatively sure and safe, but very slow and a lot of work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Bobbie G<\/em> was placed on the bateau wagon.\u00a0 Once on the wagon, it was easy to trundle it on the grassy ground and was clearly the fastest of the various methods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On Sunday, we rowed around below the fort, hopefully entertaining or interesting any visiting public.<\/p>\n\n\n Photos were taken by Peggy Huckel, Bill Manthey, and David Manthey, and are copyright by the person who took them. 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Thursday, 19 July 2019 – Rogers Rock Campground<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Friday, 20 July 2019 – Fort Ticonderoga<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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