Tue July 27-28-10
Tuesday was an extremely long day- left at 8:30am as we tried to get to the 2 American locks, west of Cornwall, early enough to beat traffic, and continue on to Crysler Marina (upper Canada Village). Wind was not as high, but current in places well over over 2 knots, this cut our cruising speed to 3-4 knots. At times we were down to 1.5-2 knots for 20-30 minutes at a time. Thank goodness the winds weren’t up as well or no progress would be made. Arrived at Snell lock at 1:15 and we didn’t exit the Eisenhower lock which was only 30 minutes upstream from the first until 7pm. We awaited the transfer of 4 freighters, while 13 boaters hung around in the basin at the bottom of the lock.
Upon exiting the lock we still had 10 miles to go to get out of American waters, otherwise if we anchored off we would have to contact US Customs.
It got darker and we chose to navigate with the chart plotter and GPS to Crysler Marina, where we arrived at 11pm, threw out the anchor and had a bite to eat.
Wednesday called for high winds again 20 kts with gusts to 40 and rain coming in the afternoon. Instead we went to Upper Canada Village and spent the afternoon enjoying pre confederation history. A few pictures to accompany it, note the Osprey are back.
No internet available so it may be a few days before I post this along with a few new pictures. PS the dates on my last post were wrong, as the days seem to melt into each other.
Hopefully off to Prescott tomorrow to link up with an uncle, if weather cooperates.
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