Crossed our Wake in NYC - Maps of our Travels

 Maps of our Boating Adventures

Technically we crossed our wake in New York Harbor after spending two summers up here.  

In 2024 we completed the Triangle Loop and explored the Western Erie Canal.  This trip took us up the Hudson River, continuing up through Lake Champlain, hitting the St. Lawrence River and turning left with a stop in Montreal.   Then journeying over to Ottawa where we picked up the historic Rideau canal and locks which took us down to Kingston and Lake Ontario.  Across the lake, up the Oswego canal to the Erie Canal.  Turned right and headed out the western section to its terminus in Tonawanda.  Return trip on the Erie had us detour to explore the Seneca Cayuga Canal before putting the boat in winter storage in Brewerton NY.  To truly close the loop on the Triangle Loop most boaters would continue east on the Erie Canal back to the Hudson River and cross their wakes there, but we had actually already traversed that portion of the triangle (the base) when we were doing the Great Loop in 2019.

In 2025 we completed the Down East Circle Loop (DECL). Left Brewerton and retraced our way out the Oswego canal to Lake Ontario.  Followed the shoreline to the St. Lawrence River.  Made stops at Montreal and Quebec.  Then on to Tadoussac and a trip up the Saguenay Fjord.   Out the end of the St. Lawrence riding the southern shore and around the Gaspe Peninsula and New Brunswick.  Over to Prince Edward Island and then onto Cape Breton and Bras D'or Lake.  Finally cross over and run the Nova Scotia coast before making the big jump across the Bay of Fundy to Maine. Then down the New England Coast and through the Cape Cod canal. Final leg is the Long Island Sound which takes us through New York City to eventually cross our starting point.

Map of Triangle Loop and Down East Loop

This map includes the bigger picture of our boating adventures which also shows the route for America's Great Loop - a circumnavigation of the eastern half of North America.  

Great Loop, Triangle Loop, Western Erie Canal and Down East Loop

Swapping out our white (in process) DECL burgee with a gold (completed) one