Schooner Apollonia

It's been so much fun sailing in Hudson, hard to believe there's only one more week with
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Thanks .must for capturing all of welcome aboard gestures 😂
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In September we get back to cargo, please reach out if you need a delivery of any goods
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It's been such a wonderful summer sailing with lovely folks out of Hudson. In just a few weeks we'll shift our energy back toward cargo... 💪 🎁 ⛵

In the meantime there are some wonderful opportunities to go out this Wednesday (), Thursday (.costello + .leon) and Saturday () ✨🌬️☁️

More later in the month () 🌄

Feel summer slipping by? We have 2 voyages - including a 🆕 one - this Thursday, 8.1! 🎟️ Tickets in bio.
🎶 The first (brand new listing today!) is with singer .costello from Saugerties who will be bringing R&B vibes to the Hudson. 🥂 The second is a sail with absinthe distillers Tianna Kennedy and Ryan Jahn from who make their green liqueur in the Catskills.
See you out on the water!

Today, as part of Community Joy Day in Hudson we're offering free trips at 3:30 and 5:00 p.m. 🌬️✨⛵ come find our crew in the park to sign up.

Take a moment to relax and get out on the water, powered by the wind and currents. We're grateful to be able to share this experience with you all

While you're down there check out all the other wonderful offerings and be sure to share your input for the future of .warehouse . Hope to see you today ✨

🚨 Due to demand, additional passenger sails added in August! 🎟️ Ticketing in our bio.
Voyage out from Hudson, NY aboard the Hudson Valley’s own sail freight vessel. 🌅 Step aboard with and more.
Get some summer sailing in!

We had fabulous sails out of Hudson on Saturday! ⛵️ John Cody captured this shot, a perfect encapsulation of our voyages with and
We have more tickets available for this Thursday, 7.18, and Saturday 7.27. 🎟️ Want to charter the whole vessel for a sail on either of those days? Let us know - we might be able to squeeze in a special voyage for your group: [email protected]

start tomorrow in Hudson! 🌅 See you tomorrow evening, 7.10.24, for sails off the dock in Henry Hudson Riverfront Park in Apollonia’s homeport - and more activities with and more!

Will you be down at the Hudson waterfront on Saturday, July 13? ⛵️ Come sail with us! Passenger sail options in our bio with or joining us for themed sails.
We’re looking forward to an evening with and down at the water’s edge as summer takes hold. 🌅

Announcing July passenger voyages in Hudson! ⛵️ Amidst our cargo work, we’ve got some great opportunities to get aboard Apollonia and out on the water. 🎟️ Book your tickets at the link.
We’ll have some incredible friends of Apollonia aboard for these themed outings: Justin Wexler of focusing on indigenous history, Nika Carlson of highlighting cidermaking, and Tianna Kennedy of delving into the mysterious greens of absinthe. 😃
Get those tickets while they last. See you at the waterfront - let’s go sailing! 🌅
And one last note: Want to do a private group charter aboard Apollonia? Reach out to [email protected] - we may be able to fit them in on the days when passenger sails are scheduled.

Northbound on the North River, sail freight cargoes of coffee, cheese & more 🌬️ with the shot!
We’re hauling cases of cheese from north for and 🧀 and green coffee beans for and .coffee.roasting ☕️ By wind!
We’ve got individual orders of and more aboard. 📦
🙏 Thanks to our sail freight cargo depots for individual pickups:

Remember those salvaged bluestone paver slabs we mentioned? 🌬️🟦 🟦 🟦 We got them to customers in Ellenville, New York from Brooklyn. But how did they get there? 🤔
This being the Apollonia team, we looked at how to reduce emissions - & prove concept for more links in our regional green logistics chain:

1. Our supercargo and a Shore Angel moved the bluestone slabs by hand from their site of disposal (thanks for the help) to our sail freight depot 🤝
2. We moved the bluestone by cargo bike & trailer to at ~GBX Gowanus Bay where Shore Angels, captain, mate, & crew loaded it into the hold. 🚲
3. Apollonia windshipped it north out of New York Harbor & up the North River/Hudson River/Mahicanituck to Kingston. ⛵️
4. Crew unloaded the bluestone along the Rondout where it was stored at - as mentioned in our previous post…bluestone is supposed to ship out of Kingston, not into Kingston! (Let’s get bluestone moving downriver again by sail freight, architects, landscapers, sculptors!) 💪
5. Shore Angels extraordinaire and used their Lightning electric pickup to transport the stone up over the Shawangunk Ridge to Ellenville, NY, inaugurating first-ever Green Link service running NYC-Kingston-Ellenville - something exciting for Ulster County & a vision of the Center for Post Carbon Logistics’ first Andrus Fellow becoming real. 🔋 ⚡️
6. Paul & Ben of Ellenville took delivery of the stone for use in landscaping, proving this lower emission, less fossil fuel-dependent transport chain & setting up the next question: what else can we move to or from the Catskills (beyond the shores of the Hudson) to or from NYC? 💡
This pilot was thoughtprovoking - and tangible. How do we build out regular transport legs from this example that rely less on fossil fuels? Many variables for further consideration: local alternate sourcing, extractive global production processes, initial transport of cargo bike & trailer to user, bluestone quarrying…the list goes on. But for now, real first steps.

It’s - and we’re busy preparing for our next sail freight voyage. 💪💡🌬️
📷 This image shows Apollonia doing what she does uniquely here in the United States: breaking path to re-open smaller, secondary and tertiary ports of call, getting maritime commerce flowing sustainably again at a human scale in the face of the climate crisis. (🤞With the crucial help of so many - especially those of you who ship cargo with us or order cargo for delivery!)
🌾 Specifically, the image captures our vessel and crew off Hoboken, New Jersey - where we called at on our May voyage to deliver flour from to 🥐 as well as a dozen Boat Boxes to many new friends through
Looking forward to more cargoes moving in and out of Hoboken with the Empire State Building looking on this season!

Today we mark International Women in Maritime Day. Women have been an integral part of the Apollonia crew since day one! And even before day one - in the years of refitting the vessel for sailing cargo.

Thank you Tianna, Tanya, Emily, Alexis, Emma, Molly, JJ, Erin, Julie, Emela, Tess, Cassie, and more - and more to come!

Thanks to our May voyage sponsor,
with crucial docking 👍

They’re back for 2024! Hudson Valley goods delivered by sail - four boxes with a nice variety of familiar and new products made in the region, brought to you by and her crew. 🌬️⛵️📦
Boat Box subscriptions are a way for you, as an individual, to get involved in the sail freight story this coming season. ☝️ Hop in via our bio link/homepage.
Can’t meet us at the dock? Not a worry: we have a series of depots where local businesses will hold them for a week for you to pick up in the ports we call at regularly. 🏬 One other thing we’ve learned: the items make great gifts, so if you can’t use them all, a friend or family member will appreciate a little treat!

Our network of Shore Angels - volunteers who support Apollonia’s sustainability mission and help with aspects of our work - is a true blue crew. 🪽 Even in the off-water period. 📦 Like Rita Ormsby, shown here, who’s been gathering shoe boxes all winter, storing them up for re-use as Boat Boxes in the 2024 sail freight season. Thank you, Rita! To all our Shore Angels who do the little things outside the limelight that make a difference, we salute you. 🫡

Brooklyn! 🎥 ⛵️ We’re screening Windshipped this week! Stop by our 🪵 shipping partner .nyc in Gowanus on Wednesday night - sail freight 🍻 by & 🧀 by
Come see what we’re about with this great 40 min doc by 2.21.24 - 5:45 pm doors, 6:30 pm film, q&a moderated by follows 👍 Free

🚢 We support the Our Air Our Water bill currently up for consideration by the NY City Council - which would require cruise ships docked at city terminals to use electric shore power rather than burning fossils fuels.
⛽️ We see the cruise ship bunker fueling process happen at the Red Hook Cruise Terminal (see second image) when we are bound with cargo under sail for Gowanus Bay via the Buttermilk Channel. Members of our crew and team, and many of our shipping partners and customers live in Red Hook and Manhattan; we see the emissions that occur when the cruise ships do not use shore power (image 1). 😷 This measure is key for sustainability/decarbonization and for public health.
Since 2020, we have been actively making ultra low carbon maritime transport happen on the Hudson River and New York Harbor, using wind, current, and tide for over 95% of our sail freight vessel’s time underway. 🌬️ We use solar panels mounted on our wheelhouse for onboard electrical needs and to charge our e-assist cargo bike for first- and last-mile deliveries ashore. ☀️
A better way is possible in NY Harbor.
Thanks to and - as well as many community advocates like and - for pushing this forward. ⚓️

Wouldn’t it be great to see a docking site here for humanscale, green cargo ships - like Apollonia? ⛵️
With New York City and advancing a Blue Highways initiative - to displace trucks and reduce emissions by shifting to waterborne freight - we’re weighing in wherever we can to encourage vessel docking functionality in waterfront designs, like this concept for Pier 6 in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. ⚓️
Our sail freight and sustainable last mile approach allows for maritime commerce to play out in and around park-type settings, as we’ve shown in places like Poughkeepsie, Beacon, Piermont, and Brooklyn Bridge Park for several years now. 🌳
We submitted a response to NYC’s Blue Highway Request for Expressions of Interest, and we look forward to continuing discussions with multiple parties about more ways to get freight moving on the water while working with unique urban contexts. 🌊

See you tomorrow (2.3) for Apollonia Day at the flagship store at 876 Broadway in Manhattan. 🌬️ 12-6 pm
⚓️ Meet the crew 12-2
🥃 Tastings w shipping partners 2-4
🎥 Film at 4, q&a follows
Come say hi and catch the film Windshipped, learn about sustainable shipping on the Hudson. 📦 Want to ship with us? Talk to the guy in the photo, the vessel’s supercargo, Brad Vogel.

We sail cargo. By wind. 🌬️

Apollonia’s set up for winter work along the Rondout…but come stay warm and say hello in NYC this Saturday as we show the film WINDSHIPPED at the flagship store:

Free Windshipped Screening 🎥
Filson Flagship Store
876 Broadway, Manhattan
Saturday, February 3rd 2024

~ Apollonia Day ~
12-2 pm - Meet the Crew
2 - 4 pm - Tastings with and
4 pm - Film screening with Q&A to follow

See you there! 🤙

See you Saturday, Feb. 3 at the flagship store on Broadway in Manhattan! 🎞️ We’ll be screening Windshipped - the film about our sustainable sail freight work - at 4 pm.
⛵️ Stop by any time between Noon and 6 pm, however, for a chance to meet the crew and taste wares from shipping partners like and more.

Hi! 👋 We’re Schooner Apollonia. Just tuning in? We’re a sail freight vessel - a ship that hauls cargo using the wind, current, & tides - on the Hudson River and New York Harbor. We move goods using as little fossil fuel/emitting as little carbon as possible.
🤝 We also operate at a human scale as we connect a regional network together. It’s waterborne commerce with a conscience. We hope you’ll be part of the sail freight story this coming season!
📷: caught Apollonia sneaking into the mouth of the Gowanus Canal last fall for a special docking to deliver cargo to and pickup cargoes heading north 🙌

Thanks to the amazing crowd that turned up last night for our screening of Windshipped by at in NYC! 🌬️🎞️ A stellar setting, great questions, and real enthusiasm for creative decarbonizing. 💯 Let’s get to it!
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Excited for new perspectives in 2024. 🌁 Any guess as to which bridge this is along our voyage route?

Help us build out a new Working Sailor Program in 2024! ⛵️💪📦 Sail training on a cargo vessel - key to retaining experienced crew and training new crew. Your support makes it happen. New mariners for a new course ahead. ⚓️

Need a few sustainably delivered sail freight goods for holiday gifts? 🎁 If you’re in NYC, you’re in luck: we can hook you up! Send a DM and we’ll connect you with an entrepreneur and friend of the ship who stocked up on the four items shown here wholesale when Apollonia brought them down in October. 👍

🏆 Last night, we were honored with the 2023 Riparian Award from for our sustainable sail freight work.
It was great to return to Hoboken, New Jersey following our first ever docking there in October thanks to and the support of so many like and - what a lovely and encouraging crowd! ☺️ Sail freight does indeed rule!
We can’t wait to see what cargoes start moving sustainably at a humanscale in and out of Hoboken in 2024. 💡🤝⛵️

Sailing (downrigging, really!) into that off-water season. 🥶
As the weather turns, docks get pulled in the ports Apollonia calls home - Hudson and Kingston. The ship gets lifted out of the water and then spends the season “on the hard” near Kingston, allowing for crucial maintenance and repairs to take place. 🛠️
It’s also a time for our team to focus on things that are challenging to pull off during a very active, fully-engaged shipping season with a small team: strategic planning, funding the next season, originating/securing cargoes, and sharing our work with new audiences. 🤝