Sunday, October 20, Day 103 This morning when we woke at 7:45 AM it was about 63 degrees and cloudy. Today we went the short jump from Lady’s Island to Beaufort to meet up with SV Bentana. We cast off at 11 AM and about an hour later we rafted off Judy and Stephen’s boat. […]
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Saturday, August 17. Day 41 We naturally woke early to calm winds and sunny skies. We planned on leaving early but had to postpone that while S/V High Tension raised their anchor which got tangled in the anchor chain of a big motor vessel anchored in front of them. The motorboat had to move so […]
Monday, August 12. Day 37 This morning we lifted anchor at 730 to travel to Watch Hill Cove to anchor at Napatree Beach. The main rain was to our south, but it rained a little on our way. We motored the entire way as there was not wind. As we were coming up to the […]
Friday, August 2. Day 29 We left Northport at 7am with Lorraine at the helm. By 727am the Main sail was up and we motor sailed while Phil got the cruising spinnaker set up. By 812am we turned the corner around Eatons Neck, raised the Shute and turned off the engine by 815am. We were […]
This morning we started then engine to warm up, then Phil lifted the anchor while I was at he helm. It’s cloudy the the bottom of the clouds cover the tops of the mountains like blankets. Lorraine took the first helm with a little adverse current, but by 815am, our fortunes turned and we had […]
Sunday, July 21. This morning we left Lock 17 dock at 722am. Not too far down the way, we saw the Swan sailboat at the Herkimer Home tied up at a new dock. You can see the sea smoke this morning, we think caused from the water being warmed from the tower across the canal […]
Thursday, July 18 1 week 6 days into trip. We woke at 6am at first light, and cast off Lock 25’s walls at 639am. We wanted to get an early start to see if we could cross Oneida Lake before the higher winds came which are expected tomorrow and Saturday. Last night Lorraine put her […]
We started out today with our ultimate destination to be Fairport, but we changed our mind during the day to stay at Spencerport, changed it back again after talking to my sister-in-law, to getting to Fairport. We left Holley docks at 815am after I talked with Melissa, daughter of S/V Senior Moment. She lives in […]
We had a relaxing start to our day, not leaving Lockport until 824am. We entered Lock 35 and immediately went into Lock 34, the first 2 locks in the Western part of the Erie Canal. Phil paid for a 10 day pass which is $37.50. It’s pretty amazing how quickly the water empties out of […]
Where we docked, it feels isolated, but in truth it isn’t as we found out last night when at 2-3am some people were close by and talking LOUDLY, enough to wake me up but not enough to really hear what they were saying. Don’t they know that we are trying to sleep? We had to […]
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