Things to do: 2009 Day Peckinpaugh Legacy Tour

Welcome Home! The historic canal motorship Day Peckinpaugh returned to her home port of Waterford on Wednesday, September 30, having traveled nearly 600 miles along the Hudson River and Champlain Canal to commemorate the Hudson-Fulton-Champlain Quadricentennial with thousands of New Yorkers.
 
Water cannons, a flotilla of tugs, the Waterford-Halfmoon jazz band, nearly 100 cheering fourth graders, and community residents celebrated the return of New York State's new floating museum.

 
Assemblyman Robert Reilly, New York State Historian Robert Weible, Mayor J. Bert McDonald, Canal Corp's Erin Agans, Captain John Callaghan, and Erie Canalway Executive Director Beth Sciumeca addressed the crowd, before visitors stepped onboard for the final day of free tours.
 

About the Voyage
The 259-foot long historic canal motorship -- the first and last of her kind -- welcomed aboard 8,000 people at 14 ports-of-call from Plattsburgh to New York Harbor in August and September. The Day Peckinpaugh raised awareness of 400 years of maritime progress on New York’s canals and rivers that followed in the wake of Henry Hudson and Samuel de Champlain.

Rescued from the scrap yard in 2005, the Day Peckinpaugh is now the largest single item in the collection of the New York State Museum. The tour marks its first voyage in its new role as a traveling museum.
 
The 2009 Day Peckinpaugh Legacy Tour is organized by:
Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor in conjunction with Saratoga National Historical Park, the New York State Museum, NYS Canal Corporation, and participating communities with funding support by Congressman Maurice Hinchey.