Sports

The decade of the 1920s is well remembered as a time of rapid growth in the American economy and the development of pers...

Paddlers, local and visiting, novice and expert, can choose from a new selection of paddling tours this season within th...

This summer we want to hear from visiting mariners.  Whether you are on a yacht, sailboat, or canoe or kayak – cons...

"Enough of that! Now for the really thrilling news... I soloed on Sunday, April 29! Yip, I SOLOed!

Among boaters that enjoy using their vintage craft frequently, Lyman boats seem to hold a very unique position. Many woo...

During the summer of 1912, Ralph Britton of Gananoque, Canada’s foremost canoe expert, had won every sailing race of the...

My father, Keith Taylor loved to talk about the early TIA days. He was one of the original boaters who attended the Augu...

The 2013 season is officially up and running on all cylinders throughout the region. Ice has melted, birds have returned...

The historic and picturesque lakeside city of Kingston, Ontario will become the focus of the Antique and Classic Boat un...

Early in September, 1927 a steam-powered barge appeared on the water off Snowshoe Point near Henderson Harbor in eastern...

Many years ago, when I was a student at Linklater Public School in Gananoque, I used to participate in the local Royal C...

In the early 1900s, long deck launches became the boats of choice among well-to-do summer residents on the lakes and riv...

I love looking at photographs of the Thousand Islands. In fact, I can never get enough of them, so when I learned that D...

Readers of Thousand Islands Life well know how the St. Lawrence River inspires artists, poets, writers . . .

The Serious Part of Childhood on the River and Elsewhere  …Milestones When we think of our progress down the river...

There was no ice to thaw as the Seaway season got underway back in March due to temperatures being higher than normal th...

I’ve heard stories, seen pictures and I’ve even seen the dusty stuffed trophies mounted...

Throughout the winter season Dr. Richard Withington  provides a unique service to Round Islanders.  He writes ...

It was about 45 years ago, give or take a few years, when I first visited the Thousand Islands. I was about 7 or 8 years...

In mid-September 2011, I visited the Thousand Islands briefly from my home in East Virginia to gather material for an ar...

“Please remember to dump your garbage far enough from shore so it does not wash back onto the shores of Grenell.” I foun...

Bottoms up for the St. Lawrence River… but not the kind you would tip your glass for.  The bottom of the St. Law...

The St. Lawrence River has served as an avenue of exploration, a battleground for national freedom fighters, a platform ...

No I’m not talking about making a new dive site by sinking a ship with a rocket. I am talking about a lost shipwreck tha...

Now that my first summer as Coordinator of Education & Outreach at the Thousand Islands Land Trust (TILT) is winding...

Attended by almost 300 people, this year’s Thousand Islands Association annual meeting and traditional shore breakfast w...

Grenellians have an intense attachment to the old launch "That’s Her". For me, the stories make her seem larger...

It stood out like a beacon, which in fact it was. For seven days, Rob Morrisette had seen nothing but water, sunrise to...

I happened to meet a fellow the other day who asked what I did with my time. I told him that I had the privilege of bein...

Editor’s Note:  On May 30, Michael Folsom published this message on his website Ship Watcher Blog.  Michael is...

Where did it all begin? I wasn’t old enough to hold a guitar, but my Uncle Tom both played professionally and gave lessons...

The Diamond Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II celebrates a remarkable 60 years on the throne by a monarch who ha...

From September 3rd to 9th, Smuggler's Glen Golf Club near Ivy Lea (Ontario) will be the site of the inaugural Great Wate...

The first sign of the shipping season came early, one full day early to be exact. Mississagi made its way from Hamilton...

Her name is Zipper and she's one of the most active classic commuters in North America. During the past twenty-seven yea...

We rowed carefully into the bay at Georgina Island, one trainee looking expectantly into the water off the bow, waiting to spot ...

She ain’t no lady! She’s not a tramp either!   She introduces you to the 1000 Islands in her own inimitable wa...

What you see is a photograph from 1965 of the Pot Pourri plying the St. Lawrence River with a Dodge Motor Home

I found my own way to view the river and the ships when I discovered the various webcams on www.Abay.com.

James Churchward, who lived from 1851 to 1936,  wrote a series of books on the Lost Continent of Mu  , in whic...

Where has the winter gone? Or better yet, where was it, to begin with? The 2011 shipping season managed to sail away un...

"Show Girl" is the name of a pristine vintage launch that was built in the shop of the Hutchinson Brothers Boat Works in 1921

The 1876 St. Lawrence River Chart No 6, drawn by the US Army Corps of Engineers, listed a wreck off Washington Island in...

Orders were received for the Dunn Motor Works vehicle from as far away as India and China.

There is, probably, no steam yacht on the St. Lawrence River that brought more delight to passengers, or spectators, tha...

On Saturday, January 28th, Alexandria Bay held their Annual Ice Fishing Derby. Each year Ice Fishermen (and women) and y...

It was a really good hit, I grabbed the rod, set the hook and checked the drag. Dan was right next to me and I said, ‘Here...

Getting to Grindstone - First glitch, the boys had thrown locking hitches on the dock lines. NEVER a locking hitch after November 1!

We finished last. We’d learned about starting, spinnakers that the Lightnings could deploy downwind, and how to get around the course without fouling.

The magnificent launch was completed on schedule as promised. Wela Ka Hao met Col. Wilber's expectations so completely that it became his principle boat for the next twenty-five summer seasons.

I'm not sure why shipwrecks fascinate me. Maybe it's because I watched a boat sink while standing on my parent's beach i...

From the moment the anchor emerged dripping from the waters of the St. Lawrence River, the twelfth grade students of Tho...

The summer of 1904 proved to be the debut in quantity of the gasoline launch in the Thousand Islands. The Syracuse Post ...

The warm spring sun reflected brilliantly off the freshly varnished woodwork as Jack Preston guided his brand new blue a...

Have you been to Clayton lately? If not, you are probably missing out on some interesting sights along the water. For...

Mix well: Seven months and $400,000. Add one motel owner, a lawyer and partner with a small boat company. Strain and pre...

“Sure is,” he said. “That was a hard crash. When I woke up in the ambulance and saw that white ceiling and the light, I thought ...

“If there’s that much trash in this one little area, then how much is in the entire river?” asked a spectator on a Septe...

The 1000 Islands is a playground for a multitude of summer water-based activities. Swimming, rowing, kayaking, wake-boar...

Without the motor power, we still felt the boat dancing on the rocks and getting pushed around by the waves.

“So spooky to see boats just sitting on the bottom, waiting for the end of time”, was the reaction of one of the visitor...

During the early to mid-1900’s, Alexandria Bay’s boat building and repair business included several machine shops. My fa...

As the summer of 2011 rapidly comes to a close I find myself thinking about our latest two-week cottage vacation and rea...

Dave Whitford provides an article titled: "Tinkering" and a tribute to the late Riggs Smith whose contributions to the River community will be long remembered.

In the Gilded Age, as now, American’s love sports; hotels, clubs, and communities had teams. The Thousand Islands region...

June 1904 marked the beginning of the Gold Cup Races, considered power boat racing’s ultimate contest in North America a...

How many of us wish we could live, work and play golf in the Thousand Islands? James (Jim) Hungerford, who left the Rive...

I started looking for sources of Hutchinson history to see if there might be enough material available to actually create a modest exhibit...

SHIP! It’s a game we started when my husband retired nine years ago. It’s nothing original. We actually got the idea fro...

Imagine if there was no gas station near your home, no mechanic to fix your car, or, when at home, no place to park your...

I then knew, well before anyone else my age, that life’s basic needs were food, clothing, shelter and a boat...

The portal to our magical island world starts in Fishers Landing at Chalks Marina. I think my heartbeat doubles as soon...

I love the internet! It seems that not a day goes by without me marveling at the vast array of information that is avail...

Getting stranded on an island with your students may sound like a teacher’s field trip nightmare, but in St. Lawrence Is...

"There's something pretty special going on here" says Scott MacCrimmon surveying the crowded room. It’s early January in...

I dug into the family archives and found some more great pictures of interesting and memorable boats that plied both the American..

In December 2010, The Finger Lakes Chapter of the Antique Classic Boating Society published this article written by Tony...

The 1st part of my trip was really fun.. the last part 'not so much'.. it was becoming Man vs Wild back there..

What a thrill it was when a package arrived recently from a man I had never met, Bill Schroeder. The envelope contained ...

100 Years Ago:  “The familiar sound of a put-put from the vicinity of Washington Island caused people to look at on...

Tim Jowett is a dedicated fisherman.

Women stayed in their own camp from five o’clock in the afternoon ...

The Restoration of a Que’ Sara, a 1932 18’ Gar Wood           
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One of the best known and longest operating boat building businesses on the St. Lawrence River is Hutchinson Boat Works, Inc.

Sightseeing flights over the islands were very popular. People loved to do the unusual, talk about it and maybe get their names in the paper.

You could always tell the river kids who were living the really good life from the ones who were not. It had nothing to do with family fortunes

As a nautical hitchhiker, I've explored the Thousand Islands by tall ship, cruise ship, power boat, canoe skiff, Sea-Doo...

I learned to fish here in the Thousand Islands the year before we were married. My husband, Gary, grew up fishing. It wa...

My earliest recollection of "River Runner", our spectacular 1926 Hutchinson Brothers sedan, was of a gray painted work

Hunched, damp and tired, we look at the scribbled number on the page and debate calling the U.S. Coast Guard. Almost 24-...

Our 1902 St Lawrence Skiff “Bobby” was my salvation as a teenager. It was 1961 and our cottage on Comfort Island was easy rowing distance from Alexandria Bay, NY.

When I met Anthony (Tony) Mollica at a recent gathering, I told him that I...

The Antique Boat Museum's 46th Annual Boat Show in Clayton, held over the July 30th - August 1st weekend, attracted over 7000 visitors

What’s in a Building? Bricks, mortar and a lot of wood. But the Gananoque Canoe Club (GCC), now known as the Thousand Is...

Louis Richards wrote, "It is a chapter in the story ...

The Central New York winter season has become my model building time. Several models have been built for collectors...

One of the most luxurious steam yachts of the Thousand Islands was a floating fixture on the St. Lawrence River during t...

I captained the old Snider 1000 Islands tour boats from 1978 to 1980...

In 1867 the Marquess of Queensbury brought structure to the sport of prize fighting. These rules instituted the three mi...

We were headed back upriver, the last scheduled ride on a sunny, August Sunday afternoon. The boat was running well, sli...

  For me, there are only three seasons: Pre-River Season, River Season and Post-River Season. Pre-River Season s...

When the St. Lawrence River freezes over, one mode of transportation is by “ice boat” or “air boat”, as they are called ...

What’s one of the very first things you think of after purchasing a new boat? Perhaps you think to yourself, what will I...

Saturday August 1st, proved to be a perfect day on the St. Lawrence River in the Admiralty Islands for the first Annual ...

One of the best ways to see a spectacular string of islands known as the Admiralty Group in the St. Lawrence River is up...

The Thousand Islands Association (TIA) will be holding their annual general meeting on July 25 at the Thousand Islands P...

The morning trip through Crooked Creek follows a route that brings a myriad of contemplations as well as a collage of co...

  I was once spotted by innocent onlookers who crowned me to be the "crazy guy in a little boat with a big flag," i...

Editor's Note:  This month we received two short stories written by friends who paddle together in the summer. Both...

Ice on the mighty St. Lawrence is beginning to thaw, but as light snow fell on the morning of February 22, nearly thirty...

We were going to contact you about going airboating with us, but we had a small mishap a few weeks ago.

The Thousand Islands Biological Station (TIBS) is located on Governor's Island, near Clayton, NY, and is an important re...

A “Monster” muskie was caught in the Thousand Islands on November 28th by Ottawa resident Dale MacNair who was with his ...

February, the dead of winter, and here we are thinking spring. We asked Roland Pootmans and his wife, Danielle, if they ...

There can be no disputing Clayton is the boating capital of the Thousand Islands both on land and in the water. This small U.S. town on the St. Lawrence River has been transformed ...

What do Pebble Beach, California; Amelia Island, Florida; Michigan's Meadowbrook Hall; Lake Como, Italy; and hopefully t...

We think of landmarks as being on land, but we have underwater landmarks on the river. Soon we may have one more. A non-...

The Clark family of Comfort Island in 1893 acquired the first houseboat on the river, the Comfort (later Balboa). As Pau...

Nearly a century has passed since the first golden age of the Thousand Islands ended. A "funeral" party in 1913 at the T...

Instead of our patchwork of public parklands on the river, we might have had—and perhaps almost had—a larger...