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by Ralph J Ferrusi
My first memories of Boating on the Hudson are when I was about five years old, and Pop took us out in an old, leaky, borrowed, wooden rowboat, powered by his dinky 1 ½ horsepower outboard, from Jimmy’s Cove in Buchanan, all the way out into the middle of the river, in what is now a busy commercial channel, to fish!!! Along the same line, I also can remember walking out in the winter to about the same spot in the middle of the frozen river—way, way out—on the ice: incredible!!!
