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Board: 1pm, Sail 1:30-4:00 p.m.
Mitch has helped us launch each new season for the past 32 years. It is our pleasure to have him launch our 33rd season! He starts playing at 1pm. Fully licensed cash bar. Limited to the first 48 reservations until we see what the weather is. If it’s nice out and both decks can be used to spread people out, we will call the people on our wait list up to 100 people. Call 315-354-5532 to be put on wait list.
Fully licensed cash bar.
Availabilities:
- Sun June 2
Price: $25 per person
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We often offer discounted cruises in June to get everyone excited about the season and to work the kinks out with our new staff. We are offering 20% off scenic excursions on these dates. Come cruise with us!
Monday, June 3th- Boarding at 1:30, sailing 2-3:30
Wednesday, June 5th- Boarding at 1:30, sailing 2-3:30
Monday, June 10th- Boarding at 1:30, sailing 2-3:30
Wednesday, June 12th- Boarding at 1:30, sailing 2-3:30
Monday, June 17th- Boarding at 1:30, sailing 2-3:30
Wednesday, June 19th-Boarding at 1:30, sailing 2-3:30
Price:
Adults (12 years +)- $20
Ages 4-11- $10
Under 4 years- $5
Offering a fully licensed cash bar. Dining room is heated and enclosed in case of inclement weather. Reservations required.
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We often discount our luncheon cruises in June to get everyone excited about the season and to work the kinks out with our new staff. This year is no exception! Choose any of the below dates and pay only $40 per person versus the usual $50. You can also opt to sit on the upper deck without the meal for $20 per person versus the usual $25.
Tuesday, June 4th- Boarding at 10:30, sailing 11-1
Thursday, June 6th- Boarding at 10:30, sailing 11-1
Tuesday, June 11th- Boarding at 10:30, sailing 11-1
Thursday, June 13th- Boarding at 10:30, sailing 11-1
Tuesday, June 18th- Boarding at 10:30, sailing 11-1
Thursday, June 20th- Boarding at 10:30, sailing 11-1
Offering a fully licensed cash bar. Dining room is heated and enclosed in case of inclement weather. Reservations required.
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Happy Father’s Day! We’ve scheduled two Father’s Day Certified Angus Prime Rib cruises on the 16th.
Availabilities:
- #1 Prime Rib Buffet Lunch 11:30-2:00 (Board 10:30)
- #2 Prime Rib Buffet Dinner 6:00- 8:30 (Board 5:00)
Price:
- Fathers: $60
- 12 years +: $65
- Child (under 12): $33
Reservations required. Optional shrimp cocktail, cheese platter or nuts available when booking. Call 315-354-5532 or book online.
Besides the certified Angus prime rib at the carving station, one other protein (either chicken or pork), 1 carb, 2 veggies, fresh fruit, salad, baguettes and butter, dessert.
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Great Camp Sagamore is hosting their annual Beer Camp and they asked us to partner with them on a Beer Pairing Dinner on the Durant. You can either contact Sagamore and sign up for the entire Beer Camp weekend or you can just join us for the beer pairing dinner portion Friday night.
Board:
Sail: 6:30-9:30
$100 per person
Menu to follow.
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Boards 9:30 p.m. Fireworks start about 9:45 p.m. Dockside bar available during show.
Availabilities:
- Thursday, July 4, 2024
Price: Free
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Board 11:00, sail 11:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Availabilities:
- Saturday, July 6
Price: $60 per person (includes 2 drink chips)
What to Expect:
- DJ Glen LeBlanc returning to play Jimmy Buffett and island tunes
- Costume contest
- Trivia contest
- Delicious buffet
- Maximum of 75 people
- Reservations required.
- Cash bar
Menu:
- Peel and eat shrimp
- Spicy Queso & bean dip
- Calypso pork & pineapple bites
- Passed cheeseburger sliders
- Chips, salsa & guac
- Key lime pie
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Our goal is to partner with a different NYS brewery every year for this wildly popular pairing dinner. We asked our fans on Facebook to give us some suggestions of their favorites and that led us to Dancing Grain Brewery, out of Gansvoort, NY.
This is an introduction to her brewery, by founder and farmer, Rachel:
“I’m Rachel, founder of Dancing Grain (DG). Farming is in my blood, but my career started in the financial industry, which helped me to launch DG. Our mission is to preserve the family farm by creating value-added agricultural products that provide a direct-to-consumer marketplace for our agricultural ingredients. Simply put – we grow grain, brew it into beer, and sell it to you on our farm, thereby increasing our margins allowing us to do more with less land!
Our beers are curated a year in advance from some of the highest quality ingredients you can source because we don’t have the ability to blend lots of barley to standardize quality. We have one harvest per year to make our beer. This also means we’ve got one shot per year to grow high-quality barley!
…no pressure, right?
We do this by being stewards of our land, meaning we grow responsibly to improve our soils and in turn the land will give us high-quality barley! FOR THE LAND. FOR THE SPIRIT. That’s oversimplifying, but it’s why you see sunflowers and buckwheat in the fall – we rotate our crops to ensure that quality is rarely a concern.
I’ll spare you the dissertation on regenerative farming and just say this – I founded DG so I could be the next generation farmer in my family.”
Check them out on facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/dancinggrain
Reservations required by booking online or calling 315-354-5532.
$100 per person, tax & gratuity included. Cash bar during boarding.
Boarding at 5pm, sailing 6-9pm.
Delicious food. Generous refills.
Menu to come as we are still planning it!
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We offered a full moon cruise last year and it was a huge success! (It helped that the moon cooperated). We’ve decided that we’d offer one full moon cruise this season too! Midnight Mike, who has played on many a moonlight cruise in the past, will be jamming below and the open upper deck will be open for prime moon viewing.
Boarding at 9:15, sailing 9:30-11:00. $30 per person. Reservations highly recommended. Limited availability. 315-354-5532 or book online.
Music and fully licensed cash bar down below. Full moon and silence (except for the hum of the engines) on the upper deck. You can choose either experience.
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Friday, August 2nd, 8:30-1:45 time commitment $80 pp
8:30-9:00 a.m. Board the WW Durant for water taxi ride to St. Williams
9:00-9:20 Cruise to St Williams, built in 1890 by William West Durant
9:30-10:00 Tour the 100 yr+ church; National Register of Historic Sites, 2005; site of the original village of Durant, NY www.stwilliamsonlongpoint.org
10:00-10:20 Walk through the meadow to Pine Knot, situated on the south shore of Long Point (transportation available for those with mobility issues)
10:30-12:00 Guided tour of Pine Knot, the first Great Camp and home to Collis P Huntington of Southern Pacific RR fame Camp Pine Knot
12:00-12:10 Board the WW Durant, tied up at Pine Knot dock
12:10-1:45 Lunch cruise with historic narration
August 2 $80 pp inclusive of cruise, meal, tax, gratuity, guided tours
Reservations required Call 315-354-5532 or book online.
Limited availability.
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Boards 9:30 p.m. Fireworks start about 9:45 p.m. Dockside bar available during show.
Availabilities:
- Saturday, August 3rd, 2024
Price: Free
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As many of you know, we always offer a Dr. Frank wine pairing dinner on the Durant during our season. Not only is this a fantastic winery, but Dr. Frank’s granddaughter, Barbara Frank, has a camp in a nearby village and is incredibly supportive! So here goes what is about our 12th Dr. Frank wine dinner!
Board 5:00 p.m. Sail 6:00-9:00 pm
Reservations required by calling 315-354-5532 or by booking online.
$105 per person. Includes tax & gratuity.
We’re still in the middle of planning this year’s menu, but here is a sneak peak at what we served last year:
1. Chilled melon gazpacho with mint chiffonade- Dr. Frank ’21 Gruner Veltliner
2. Strawberry salad with white balsamic poppy seed dressing- Dr. Frank ’21 Dry Rose
3. Strip steak with a Moody Blue cream sauce, chive and lemon zesty smashed potatoes- Dr. Frank ’20 Cabernet Sauvignon
4. Apricot Tart ala mode- Semi-Dry Riesling
Some info on Dr. Frank:
Dr. Konstantin Frank ignited the “Vinifera Revolution”, a movement that forever changed the course of wine growing in the Finger Lakes and the United States. Dr. Frank’s vision, knowledge and determination are credited with elevating the New York wine industry from a state of happy mediocrity to a level that today commands world attention.
We are thrilled to welcome Dr. Frank’s granddaughter, Barbara Frank, on board, during this cruise. She will be sharing her vast knowledge of each wine as we serve each course.
Barbara is the Regional Marketing Representative and Consulting Winemaker for Dr. Frank’s Vinifera Wine Cellars and Chateau Frank Winery. She has over 30 years of experience in wine production, research, instruction and marketing.
In addition to having been head winemaker at Dr. Frank’s and Chateau Frank, Barbara has operated in various winemaking capacities at S. Anderson, Navarro, Schramsberg and Domaine Mumm. She also worked as National Sales Representative for Billecart-Salmon Champagnes. Barbara has lectured on wine and wine appreciation at various institutions including the Culinary Institute of America, Cornell University School of Hotel Administration and the International Wine Center (NYC).
Her educational background includes a B.S. in Viticulture from Cornell University, guest student at the Geisenheim Institute in Germany and an M.S. in Enology from California State University at Fresno.
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Boarding 8:15, sailing 8:30am. Return to the dock at 1pm. $75 pp inclusive for water taxi to Pine Knot, 90 minute guided tour Pine Knot, luncheon cruise with historic commentary, tax and service charge on meal.
Pine Knot, the first Great Camp built by William West Durant and sold to Collis P Huntington of Southern Pacific RR fame, is not usually open to the public. It is located on Long Point, boat access only.
Now owned by SUNY Cortland, the facility caters to school and corporate groups. However a few times each season, Cortland consents to a few public tours because there is so much desire by the public to see this historic place.
Reservations required. Call 315-354-5532. Other days this summer the Pine Knot package is offered are Tues. Sept. 10th and Wednesday, Oct. 9th. Limited number of seats available.
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Board 11:00 a.m. Sail 12 – 1:30 p.m.
Availabilities:
- Saturday, August 31st
Price:
- $60 per person
- $40 (DD & those who don’t drink beer)
Here’s what to expect for your $60 per person-
Saranac Beer, BBQ and Blues:
- Boarding 11:00 a.m. – 12 p.m. with sailing 12 – 1:30 p.m.
- Must be 21 years to taste; DD can be under 21 years
- Awesome one man band Matt Grainger entertaining (not just blues)
- Limited to 75 people
- BBQ fare includes fall-off-the-bone ribs, corn on the cob, coleslaw, watermelon & apple crisp
- Generous pours of Saranac’s beers of Fall, PLUS samples of two unreleased pilot brews
- Meet and greet Saranac’s own Head Brewmaster, Keith Miller and his assistant, Rosalie!
- Cash bar available
- Reservations recommended by calling 315-354-5532 or by booking online.
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Board 11:00 am. Sail 11:30-1:00 pm
Just $15 each. A $10 savings!
Beverage& snacks available for purchase.
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Boarding 8:15, sailing 8:30am. Return to the dock at 1pm. $75 pp inclusive for water taxi to Pine Knot, 90 minute guided tour Pine Knot, luncheon cruise with historic commentary, tax and service charge on meal.
Pine Knot, the first Great Camp built by William West Durant and sold to Collis P Huntington of Southern Pacific RR fame, is not usually open to the public. It is located on Long Point, boat access only.
Now owned by SUNY Cortland, the facility caters to school and corporate groups. However a few times each season, Cortland consents to a few public tours because there is so much desire by the public to see this historic place.
Reservations required. Call 315-354-5532. Other days this summer the Pine Knot package is offered are Tues. Aug 20th and Wed, Oct 9th. Limited number of seats available.
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Board 11:00 am. Sail 11:30-1:00 pm
Just $15 each. A $10 savings!
Beverages & snacks available for purchase.
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Boarding 8:15, sailing 8:30am. Return to the dock at 1pm. $75 pp inclusive for water taxi to Pine Knot, 90 minute guided tour Pine Knot, luncheon cruise with historic commentary, tax and service charge on meal.
Pine Knot, the first Great Camp built by William West Durant and sold to Collis P Huntington of Southern Pacific RR fame, is not usually open to the public. It is located on Long Point, boat access only.
Now owned by SUNY Cortland, the facility caters to school and corporate groups. However a few times each season, Cortland consents to a few public tours because there is so much desire by the public to see this historic place.
Reservations required. Call 315-354-5532. Other days this summer the Pine Knot package is offered are Tues. Aug 20th and Tues. Sept. 10th. Limited number of seats available.
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Two years ago for the Snowflake excursion, it was snowing and blowing. Last year it was almost 80 degrees! We don’t know what the weather will be like this year but we figure that if we schedule 2 Snowflake Excursions for our last day of the season, we can’t go wrong!
Choose whichever time slot fits your schedule better:
#1 Boarding at 11, sailing 11:30-1:00
#2 Boarding at 1:30, sailing 2-3:30
Buy your tickets online. Lower enclosed cabin heated. Fully licensed cash bar with lots of wine, beer & drink specials to help reduce the summer inventory. Cruise includes complimentary coffee, cider & cinnamon fried cakes.
$30 for ages 12+
$15 for ages under 12
Complimentary passes cannot be used for this cruise.