Saturday, October 06, 2007

Beginning Our Trip South!
















As you can see from the picture we started out at dawn for Oswego. Larry was doing some last minute rechecking of the rig for the mast, you can never be to cautious.
We experienced many weather changes today some not so good. At one point near Oswego about 15 nm West, we in our small boat, felt like a toy boat in a bath tub with a couple of rambunctious kids. The waves were coming at us from the side and tossing us from side to side. This is not a fun motion when the mast is horizontal on the deck from bow to stern.














This picture is of the lighthouse at the Oswego break wall and the last of the little bit of sun that we saw at sunset. We were very tired but arrived after traveling 77.7 nm and 12 hours of fun. We are certainly glad this leg is over. Tomorrow is a new day and possibly another wet one but we will start out a little later, about 8 AM and travel the locks on the Oswego Canal System. For now we plan a good nights sleep listening to the rain on the deck.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hi Gail and Larry
Yes we are still here watching for your news. We have four boats we are following, the two from our club,Strthspey who are in the Chesapeak for a couple of weeks, Madcap who are visiting the Annapolis Boat show and Gary and Annette on Sabatical who are moving down the Atlantic today (Mon) They are certainly moving quite quickly.
Sorry to hear of the problem with the furler, is it the same parts that are separating ? Keep the blog going its the only sailing we can get untill May '08 !!!
Keep safe
Monica & Tony

12:10 PM  

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