At the Castleton on Hudson Boat Club, along with several French Canadians, we used the dock hoist to help each other lower our masts onto A-frames and crutches which we constructed from wood found at the back of the club. Amid cobwebs lay bundled frames waiting for reclamation by their original owners, and dilapidated foundations, which could be scavenged for lumber to build new frameworks to hold downed-masts in place for travel under bridges and through canals.

We used two long two by fours and mounted them to the two short ones on top and also two longer ones on the bottom that also turned out to be good seats allowing us to look over the top of the boat's cabin.

For the forward part all we really needed is a couple of two by fours across the top of the bow pulpit, but for safe measure we added a fancy saw horse just in front of the cabin.

Sankaty next went up the Hudson River toward the Federal Lock of Troy, NY. We were hoping to take the Erie Canal to Oswego, NY but the Erie closed due to the heavy rains that caused a canal wall to break. We changed our plans and headed North up the Hudson River to Lake Champlain. We stayed a four days in Burlington, VT before traveling up the Richeleau River to the St. Lawrence SeaWay, and then to Montreal. Burlingto, VT had a chef's school that served excellent meals in downtown. We also got the cat immunized for the entrance to Canada