Apollonia has completed her 20th Hudson River Cargo Voyage

Thank you to all our crew, shore angels, shipping partners and producers

See you next season

Our mission is to move cargo sustainably.

Since 2020, the Schooner Apollonia has transported over 200,000 pounds of cargo by wind, tide, and current

Our watershed includes the Hudson River, New York Harbor, the East River, Newtown Creek, the Gowanus Canal, Raritan Bay, the Arthur Kill, the Kill Van Kull, and Rondout Creek.

We’ve hauled malted barley, coffee beans, lumber, flour, beer, equipment, cheese, pumpkins, apparel, cider, furniture, and much more. We also supply galas/events, deliver to food banks and pantries, and transport wholesale and individual cargoes, including our CSA-style Boat Boxes.

Below are a few images from the September Cargo Run we just completed.

Apollonia first launched in 1946. Today, we invite you to join our annual maintenance program by sending $77 for 77 years of Apollonia.

More great ways to get involved:

“This is actually a low cost grass roots effort that, with modest support, can crack something that we have not been able to do with prior substantial government subsidies for river borne trade development.”

-Rik van Hemmen of Martin & Ottaway

“Most forms of transportation work against natural forces, using engines and machinery to overcome inertia, friction, and gravity, excluding the influence of the elements as much as possible. Moving in a sailboat depends on your harmony with the forces of nature; you're not overcoming the forces of nature, but moving with them.”

- Jan Adkins The Craft of Sailing