Athens, NY

We got up at three in the morning, to catch the current going up. Before the current turned against us, at 7:30, we reached Athens and stopped at their free visitors dock.

From Athen's website:

The Village of Athens sits on the west bank of the Hudson River, four miles north of the Rip Van Winkle Bridge in Greene County. First settled in the late 17th century, the village, a port on the Hudson-Athens Ferry, became a thriving hub for shipbuilding, brick making and ice harvesting.

After the bridge went up in 1935, the need for the ferry was eliminated and it closed in 1947. Athens’ layout and architecture have remained essentially the same since its heyday in the late 19th century. It has more than 300 buildings on national and state historic registers and has the feel of a living museum of American architecture, with examples of many of the predominant styles of the 18th and 19th centuries, including Federal, Greek Revival, Italianate, Stick, Second Empire, Folk Victorian and Queen Anne.

We found a sleepy town on an early Monday morning. Couldn't get a breakfast, besides a sandwich from the fuel station. Several restaurants and cafes are closed Mondays and Tuesdays.

We had a couple of thunderstorms roll thru.

They do have a brewery and pub, which we want to try tonight. Tomorrow we have another early start, and should make it to Castleton-On-Hudson. There we un-step the mast for the trip thru the Erie Canal.