10.16.21
We loaded up in Hudson with 3,100lbs of Hudson Valley Malt and individual orders from Poor Devil Pepper Company, Viking Maple, Greenpoint Cidery, Moisturize Me, Liberty Farms, and Atina Foods.
10.18.21
A couple days later we arrive in Poughkeepsie to load 1,500lbs of flour from Wild Hive Farm and offload 1,200lbs of malt.
We push off after a short time and sail across the river to Milton, New York. Here we load 250 pie pumpkins from Hepworth Farms, 97 pumpkins and assorted squashes from Sycamore Farms, and apples, cider, and grapes from Elizabeth Ryan.
10.21.21
Arrive in Long Island City.
10.22.21
The crew wakes up at the RETI Center barge in Red Hook, Brooklyn. The bike and trailer are launched to collect coffee beans from Gotham Coffee Roasters and Ninth Street Espresso. We also grab a case of whiskey and barrel from Van Brunt.
That evening is Sail Freight Friday, a public event at the RETI center barge.
10.23.21
Pumpkin offloading event at South Street Seaport Museum in Manhattan. In two hours, almost 300 pumpkin’s leave Apollonia’s cargo hold. Two of Apollonia’s crew stay behind to run our stand at the Fulton Stall Market.
Apollonia starts going North.
10.24.21
Malt and coffee are unloaded in Ossining to Sing Sing Kill Brewery and First Village Coffee.
10.28.21
We end our trip a stop early in Kingston, New York to downrig the boat and get her ready to haul out in the Rondout Creek.
Jared from Poor Devil Pepper Co. makes a delicious Eggplant Parmesan.
Total Cargo October 2021
3100 lbs malt
347 pumpkins
4 cases maple syrup
8 cases cider
4 baskets blue squash and guards
4 bins concord grapes
2 coolers hot sauce
yarn
condiments
beauty products
coffee
whiskey