GL: 2007 Hudson River Cruising Guide

[LRZeitlin@aol.com]

The boating season in the Hudson Valley is almost upon us. The ice has melted 
in the upper reaches of the Hudson River and a few warm days will get rid of 
the late spring snow. The 2007 edition of "The Cruising Guide to the Hudson 
River" is now ready. It is available in two forms, a .PDF file of 192 Kb which 
can be sent on the internet, and a 170 Mb CD, which must be mailed.   The Guide 
includes a full description of the river with recommended stops and sights. 
It has been expanded to include an updated list of restaurants and anchorages. 
The CD includes the Guide and a lot of other useful and/or interesting 
material.

I would be happy to send the .PDF file of the Guide, via internet, to anyone 
who asks for it. Just send me your e-mail address. If you want the CD, send me 
your mailing address. There is no charge for either but if you find the CD 
useful, I would appreciate a small donation to cover reproduction and postage.

Here are the contents of the CD:


CRUISING GUIDE TO THE HUDSON RIVER

This personal cruising guide to the Hudson River is based on more than 40 
years experience navigating the waters of the Hudson River and the adjacent 
waterways of New York State. After a century's use as an industrial waste dump, the 
river has been cleaned up in recent years to the point where it almost 
approaches the quality so admired by the Hudson River School painters. The 
combination of sheer physical beauty, navigational challenge, and historic importance 
make a Hudson River cruise one of the most satisfying and worthwhile ways of 
"messing around in boats."

This CD is divided into six parts:

GUIDE: 
Part One is the cruising guide itself, presented in both .PDF and Word .DOC 
formats. Any computer with any Acrobat Reader or MS Word released in the last 
ten years should be able to read the files. In addition to a description of the 
river, the guide lists restaurants, fuel stops and anchorages from the 
Battery to Albany.

CHARTS: 
Part Two includes two sets of charts of the Hudson River. The first set is a 
series of high resolution .JPG files of 25 charts of the river from the 
Battery to Troy. Each chart covers about 8 miles of the river. These can be viewed 
by any program capable of opening JPG files. The charts are very useful for 
trip planning, if not necessarily for precision navigation. A depthfinder and a 
good lookout are still essential for approaching an unfamilar shoreline. 

The second set of charts are the NOAA BSB format charts of the Hudson from 
New York Harbor through Troy. These will open in any navigation program capable 
of using BSB charts. 

IMAGE: 
Part Three contains several rudimentary imaging programs for both PCs and 
Macs. If, by some strange quirk of fate, you do not have a program on your 
computer which can decipher JPG image files, one of these may do. 

ERIE: 
Part Four is information on the Erie Canal, extracted from the Canal 
Corporation website. 

ART: 
Part Five is an album of old and modern Hudson River School paintings. The 
Hudson River School was America's first homegrown art movement. The painters 
devoted themselves to documenting the bucolic Hudson River landscape. Modern 
artists have revived the tradition, albeit with a more colorful palette and a less 
representational technique.

ALBUM: 
Part Six is a photo album of miscellaneous personal boating pictures that 
happened to be on my computer. They have no social significance whatever. But 
there was so much empty space on the disc - - 

Larry Zeitlin
12 Brook Lane
Cortlandt Manor, NY 10567




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