Our deal with Marc & Michele (Marc’s Ark) last night was to give us a call when they were ready to leave and we would join them for the trip up the lake. At 5:45 a.m. the phone ran and we were ready to leave at 6 a.m.Leaving Burlington6 a.m. …
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Boathouse Marina, Burlington, VT – 6/19/12
As you will note … not many pictures today since the First mate had camera duty. When we finally got moving around this morning we called our friends on Carried Away who were anchored outside the break water to see if they were interested in go…
Boathouse Marina, Burlington, VT – 6/15/12
Our Canadian GPS chip was supposed to be delivered to us at the marina by West Marine shortly after 10:30 a.m. but didn’t make it here until after 2 p.m. We had already decided not to move north today due to very high winds on the lake. Abo…
Burlington Boathouse Marina, Burlington, VT – 6/17/12
Spending the night on the mooring ball was not bad at all. Since our inverter is not inverting … we had to run the generator more than we would have liked but we got through it. This morning the wind was really blowing hard and most of th…
Mooring Ball, Burlington, VT – 6/15/12
We checked at West Marine to see if our GPS chip had arrived and found that it had made it to Newark, NJ and would not be in Burlington until Monday at 10:30 so since the marina was sold out for Saturday night, we had to move out into the mooring field…
Burlington Boathouse, Burlington, VT – 6/15/12
We had a delightful breakfast with Bill & Joyce on Quest this morning before leaving. We had planned to go to the Canadian border but when I was plotting our course up the lake on the GPS I found that it did not have charts for Quebec. …
Westport Marina, Westport, NY – 6/14/12
A day of chores before heading into Canada.The marina owner & mechanic came over to our boat early to look at the genset and had it running within minutes. Seems that a loose wire on the fuel solenoid was the culprit all along. The inve…
Westport Marina, Westport, NY – 6/13/12
Along with Carried Away we had decided to leave at 8 a.m. this morningLeavingDownstream side of Lock 12 This was the last lock we went through yesterday and will be the last for a long time.Champlain Canal A very pleasant ride for many miles …
Whitehall Marina, Whitehall, NY – 6/12/12
We left Ft. Edwards at 8:05 a.m. after contacting the lock which was less than a mile away and they said it would be ready for us when we got there.Following Charlotte.CWe followed our Canadian friends, Gilles & Nancy down the creek to the lock.Cha…
Ft. Edward Yacht Basin, Ft. Edward, NY – 6/11/12
Today we had to go under several LOW bridges so we had to get our boats down to under 17 feet to clear them. Bill called the first lock at 7 a.m. that we would be going through within a couple miles and they indicated they could lower the pool so…
