May Cargo Voyage Coming Soon: Subscribe for Boat Boxes of goods by sail. Sign up for Cider Club by schooner. Pre-order a bottle of North River Rye whiskey - aged aboard Apollonia in 2023 and bottled by The Spirits Lab in Newburgh - for delivery by sail in May 2024 to select ports in New York.
Since 2020, the Schooner Apollonia has transported over 200,000 pounds of cargo by wind, tide, and current
Our watershed includes the Hudson River, New York Harbor, the East River, Newtown Creek, the Gowanus Canal, Raritan Bay, the Arthur Kill, the Kill Van Kull, and Rondout Creek.
We’ve hauled malted barley, coffee beans, lumber, flour, beer, equipment, cheese, pumpkins, apparel, cider, furniture, and much more. We also supply galas/events, deliver to food banks and pantries, and transport wholesale and individual cargoes, including our CSA-style Boat Boxes.
Our mission is to move cargo sustainably.
Apollonia first launched in 1946. Today, we invite you to join our winter maintenance program by sending $77 for 77 years of Apollonia.
Upcoming Events
May Cargo Voyage - May 4, 2024 - May 17, 2024 (Hudson, NY to NY Harbor and back) - Full May Voyage Schedule Here
June Cargo Voyage - June 15, 2024 - June 29, 2024 (Hudson, NY to Carteret, NJ and back)
September Cargo Voyage - September 7, 2024 - September 21, 2024 (Hudson, NY to Carteret, NJ and back)
October Cargo Voyage - October 12, 2024 - October 26 (Hudson, NY to NY Harbor and back to Kingston, NY)
**We schedule our baseline roundtrip, two-week cargo voyages in advance (see above). As additional cargoes/cargo volume justify additional voyages, we will gladly add voyages, as we have multiple times in the past. Schedule subject to change due to cargo needs, captain’s discretion, weather conditions.
More great ways to get involved:
“This is actually a low cost grass roots effort that, with modest support, can crack something that we have not been able to do with prior substantial government subsidies for river borne trade development.”
-Rik van Hemmen of Martin & Ottaway
“Most forms of transportation work against natural forces, using engines and machinery to overcome inertia, friction, and gravity, excluding the influence of the elements as much as possible. Moving in a sailboat depends on your harmony with the forces of nature; you're not overcoming the forces of nature, but moving with them.”
- Jan Adkins The Craft of Sailing
