Clayton

Clayton, NY is a quaint burg on Lake Ontario of around 2,000 people, full of restored homes, a handful of neat restaurants and shops and the home of the Antique Boat Museum (ABM)- has a major population growth in the summer (tourist and summer homes).  The municipal docks are located in the middle of it all and the foggy morning was a great time to take in a museum.  Bella’s was the breakfast place of choice (stuffed French toast-yum) and then on to ABM.  The museum was very interesting and had some of the more beautiful wooden boats and chronicling boat racing in northern NY and Canada from the late 1800’s.  The names mentioned are Gar Wood, Sir Malcolm Campbell and Horace Dodge (sister Delphine was a racer and seemed like quite a woman).  It took us about 4 hours to get our fill –we tagged onto guides who were taking the Penn-Ohio antique car club through so we got a lot of the local lore on the boats/people—fun.  After an afternoon of shopping and docktails on deck with the sun beating down we plotted our entrance into Canada. 

Baby Watercar has a short/interesting story

Boat show from the early 1900's

Dr. Suess did a big ad campaign for Essomarine in the 1920's-  we liked this one

The original jet ski from 1951--there is an engine in the front

The boys had to check out the little steamers