Our First Ship on the Seaway!



  If you look closely Captain Roy is on the wrong side of the green buoy too make sure he had plenty of room for the ship!





Ship on our port side.





Ship passes YUMSUCH!



We left Cape Vincent, Monday morning, to sail to Clayton, NY.  Another wonderful sail.  The current was helping us along so we arrived much earlier than expected!  The current averaged 1.5 Knots.  Locals say it is running faster with the excessive rain.  Should be quite a sleigh ride when we hit the narrow sections of river.

We where anchored out for 7 days, only had to use the generator twice!  Once last Wednesday when it rained all day at Cherry Island.  We were 70 amp hrs down, then Friday morning at Cape Vincent 50 amps down starting the day off with cloudy skies but the sun came out shortly after firing up the generator so we shut it down.  Being on the hook, we had enough wind to keep our overnight usage to around 25 amps.  Normal would be 40 amps.  The wind averaged around 8 knots which gives us anywhere from 1-3 amps.  With the reduced overnight usage, and a sunny day, the solar panels are able to recoup everything by the end of the day. 

We are at French Creek Marina, the depth of the water coming was between  7ft - 9ft, our boat drafts 5 1/2 ft.
After docking on Monday, Enterprise Car Rental picked us up and drove us to Watertown to rent a car. Roy needs to see a customer in Vermont today (Tuesday).  Since we had a car we ran some errands, then ate at Riley's in Alexander Bay.  Duane is joining us Wednesday night and we plan to leave Thursday morning for Brockville.