Latest Clearwater Blog Posts
Closing up shop and setting sail
Tomorrow, Clearwater begins her 2025 sailing season! Our crew has spent the last several weeks preparing to set sail following a busy restoration season at our Homeport at the Hudson River Maritime Museum on the Rondout Creek. Over the winter, our captains, crew, shipwrights, [...]
Winter Restoration Updates: March 2025
March marks the final month of our 2024-2025 winter restoration season. We’re wrapping up winter-long and final projects and are preparing to begin uprig the first weekend in April. A big project this winter has been replacing our onboard refrigeration system. Unlike an onshore fridge, [...]
Homeschool Education Sails 2025
Join Clearwater for a Sailing Classroom Program for Homeschool students and families this season out of Kingston, Poughkeepsie, Cold Spring, Manhattan, or Brooklyn! Our Sailing Classroom Program is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to learn about the river from the deck of a Hudson River Sloop, [...]
Winter Restoration Updates – January 2025
As we pass the mid-point of our winter maintenance season, the crew is hard at work. Demolition, always the quickest, is complete and building and installation are forging ahead. Captain Liam, who has been taking the lead in shipwright matters this year, is building [...]
LGBTQ+ Solidarity Statement
Clearwater stands unwaveringly with LGBTQ+ people and is committed to remaining a safe space for queer joy, adventure, education, and community. LGBTQ+ rights are human rights. We will fight alongside the trans and non-binary community and condemn hate, discrimination, and violence in all forms. We [...]
Environmental Groups Condemn EPA’s Final Review of the Hudson Superfund Site
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: JANUARY 17, 2025 Environmental Groups Condemn EPA's Final Review of the Hudson Superfund Site The Upper Hudson River PCB cleanup is not protecting Hudson River communities and the environment HUDSON VALLEY, N.Y.—Environmental groups decry the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) conclusions in [...]