From Trenton to Kingston?!

I do recall saying that part of the element of this lifestyle that I was looking forward to was not having to plan every element of a day and to go with the flow a little more than we normally do.  Well here we are in Kingston with a stop over in Bygott's Bay for the night.  We had a lovely evening in the bay with the fish jumping, and a beautiful sunset.  We made up some burgers on the BBQ and enjoyed a big salad (and a couple of beers for me!)

Sunset in Bygott's Bay

So why Kingston?  Well it turns out the Oswego Canal is closed!  The heavy rains earlier in the week that were light showers on the Trent Canals were apparently quite a down pour in NY and the subsequent flash flood wiped out the channel markers and caused the locks to have to close due to high water levels.  So we had to spend a couple of days in other directions to wait out the delay.

On the plus side we had a chance to turn up the heat on the CATs and blew out a bunch of low idle "canal smoke" as I will call it.  A little disconcerting to start (lots of smoke) but it subsided and now the big CATs are smoke free and running clean.  I also cut right up the middle of a sailboat race.  There were dozens of them in packs fighting for wind.  I found a little crack in the procession and went through as slowly as I could.  It's hard not throwing a big wake with Reviresco!  It was a little tight, but I hope they appreciated the effort.

Sail boat races!

Tomorrow we will check the weather, file a sail plan with the Coast Guard, and take a 80KM crossing of Lake Ontario to Oswego and hope that the canal opens soon!  After that we will have to make up a little time and put in a few longer days on the water so we can have a couple of days in NY NY!  At least that is the working "plan".

Cheers!!!