The New York State Canal System

Susan Peterson Gateley is a native Upstate New Yorker, former teacher and icthyoplankton taxonomist, who single-handed the wooden sloop Ariel in search of stories for boating and nature magazines for seventeen years. In 1996, she acquired a different boat and partner and added Gateley to her name. Her articles about Upstate waters have run in numerous local and national publications, and she has authored a half dozen titles on Lake Ontario. She has a master's degree in fisheries science and has sailed coastal waters, Lake Ontario and, more recently, the New York Canal System, with vessels ranging from fourteen to forty-seven feet. Visit susanpgateley.com for more on her titles and a link to her Substack newsletter, the Lake Ontario Chronicles .