BREWERTON TO OSWEGO, NY



DAY 21 FRI. JUNE 24, 2011

AM Showers, PM showers L65/H80

Dep. Ess-Kay Marine12:20 Arr. Oswego 6:30

Dist. 33.8sm/526.5m

We were ready to go at 8am, unfortunately, the boat wasn't. Just a few more details like securing the spare prop and covering the access holes we made while installing the hose. We left Ess-Kay happy to be under way again. Ten miles later we departed the Erie C. and turned north into the Oswego Canal at the junction of three rivers, the Mohawk, Seneca, and Oswego. The locks on the Oswego were newer and in much better condition than the Erie, and I must admit, the Oswego R. was much nicer. We went thru 7 locks and 22 miles and would have arrived sooner, but just our luck, that day they put lock #7 on an opening schedule instead of on demand as the were reparing it. We made the 6pm opening with time to spare and tied up for the night on the east wall between locks 7 & 8 just before a bridge. We thought it was just for the night, so we settled down for a nice quiet sleep, and awoke the next morning to high westerly winds and high pitched noises which turned out to be workers on the bridge above us grinding, jackhammering and just making a lot of NOISE!


DAY 22 SAT, JUNE 25, 2011
Windy, cool.
Distance. 0sm/526.5m
Restocking day, groceries, milk, etc.
DAY 23 SUN. JUNE 26, 2011
Windy and cool

I TOLD YOU SO! We should have replaced the microwave last week, but we didn't, so now we had to walk 2 miles to WalMart, buy one we didn't like, buy a jigsaw I don't need, and pay for a cab back to the boat. On Sat nite a nice friendly couple from Vinyard Haven pulled in and came over to meet us when the saw the Falmouth Hailing port. Mike Strada and Jennifer Stix aboard NOVA, a Northern Bay 36. As luck would have it Mike was a retired contracter and he gave me some ideas as to how to make the new microwave fit. Instead of enlarging the whole oening, I simply cut notches out for the feet to slide in and it worked. Not very pretty, but nothing a piece of molding won't take care of. Tomorrow the winds abate and we plan to leave as soon as the #8 lock opens at 7am.

LEAVING OSWEGO HARBOR