MV Rip Van Winkle

M/V Rip Van Winkle at her home dock
History
United States
Name: M/V Rip Van Winkle
Owner: Hudson River Cruises
Operator: Hudson River Cruises
Builder: Edward T. Gamage, East Boothbay, Maine
Completed: 1980
In service: 1982
Homeport: Kingston, New York
Status: Active
General characteristics
Class & type: Tour Boat
Displacement: 200 tons
Length: 125 ft (38 m);
Beam: 28 ft (8.5 m)
Draft: 7.5 ft (2.3 m)
Installed power: 960 HP
Propulsion: 2 Diesel engines (Detroit 12v71) Generators: 1 Westerbeke 20kw, 1 Northern Lights 65kw
Speed: 12 kn (14 mph; 22 km/h)
Capacity: 300-350 people (388 maximum legal capacity)

M/V Rip Van Winkle is a Hudson River tour boat based in Kingston, New York. She was built for use in the oil industry in 1980, but has served as a passenger vessel in New York State, and as a ferry for the US Navy.

Tours

The boat leaves Kingston's Rondout Creek, heads south down to Hyde Park, New York, and then turns north and returns to Kingston. The total time is 2 hours and the trip is narrated. Sightseeing tours have also included "three-hour narrated tours to the Vanderbilt estate, in Hyde Park."[1] Rip Van Winkle also offers various specialty cruises throughout the year, such as music cruises and murder mystery dinner party cruises, and can be chartered for parties and weddings.

History

The Rip Van Winkle was built to be an oil industry shore well platform service vessel, by Edward T. Gamage in East Boothbay, Maine in 1980. She was purchased by Charles Robertson, owner of the New England Steamboat lines, who converted the boat to passenger service. An upper deck was added as were lavatories, snack bar and liquid bar. She was put into service in 1982 out of Haldam to Greenport and Sag Harbor, Long Island. The vessel did a short stint in the Navy as a ferry boat for the sailors in New London. Hudson River Cruises bought the boat in 1985 and brought it to Kingston, New York in September of that year. Rip van Winkle went into service on the Hudson River in 1986.

References

  1. ↑ "Tour Boats « Kingston Happenings". 2010-07-10. Retrieved 2012-03-16.

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