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Alcove Marina - Champlain Canal Schuylerville, NY |
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Alcove Marina is a nice little spot about 4 miles south of Champlain Lock C-5 at Schuylerville. Alcove is best for small and medium sized boats, the entrance has a shallow spot about 4 feet deep with a soft mud bottom. My American Tug has no problems getting in, and this is one of my favorite lunch stops on the canal. Contact owner Robert Guay at 518-695-6079.
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Alcove is situated half a mile up an old canal which tends to get weeded up late in the season. After checking my strainers each time I went in the first few times, I find the weeds to be no problem. The entrance channel is well marked. Locals sometimes call it the Green Lagoon.
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Here are some of the docks. Water depth in front of the marina is about 12 feet. The marina is totally protected from storms. That's Tug 44 on the right.
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Alcove Marina incudes this bar & restaurant in front of the docks. Waterfront dining overlooking the boats, rather nice! That's my friend Pam telling me that lunch is about to be served.
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After leaving the bar, you can tell your wife, "No, Dear, I wasn't drinking, but I did see a bright blue horse with polka-dots!"
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The Green Lagoon features some very pretty flowers. Here's a closeup of a white water-lilly, there's tons of these in the lagoon.
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Alcove Marina has a lot of other plants too, there's water hyacinth, duck weed, and also these pretty blue flowers which I cannot identify.
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The bar & restaurant at Alcove Marina stays open in our frigid winters. This day in early spring 2010 they were having a fund raiser for Breast Cancer including trap shooting over the water with shotguns. Imagine my walking into the bar, and realizing that I was the only person in the place without a beer in one hand and a shotgun in the other. The pool table had another dozen shotguns laying on it. Yep, we're out in the country here! In the video a reporter from the local Fox News affiliate takes her first ever attempt with a shotgun. The rules state ya lose 1 point for shooting at the dock, and 2 points for shooting at the lighthouse. They had to plow the snow off the beach for this event.
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