Oswego NY to Trenton ON


We left the US!   And the people's republic of New York!   

Today was an early one.  Weather was forecast to pick up early afternoon to 20+ mph wind.   We don't want to be in Lake Ontario when the wind is running the length of the lake.   

So 5:30am departure it was.  


We could see the sun rise as we left the harbor. 


And then we burned the fuel.  Serious fuel.  20mph for four plus hours.   


The lake was pretty flat.  It started out with some swells from the west but they subsided the closer we got to the North shore. 


Eventually we could see the power plant on the shore near the entrance to The Bay of Quinte.   This zig zaggy bay ran 20+ miles getting narrow then wide over and over.  Most of it we could do at speed...

It is fairly protected.  It feels a lot like home as the water and shores now resemble Northern Michigan.  

We arrived at Trent Port Marina just about lunch time ..  (which felt like dinner time since we were up so early) 

This place is really nice. A nearly new marina....

Bathrooms that look like a five star hotel and a sweet boaters lounge.  

Even free Weber grills and Whirlpool laundry machines.  (Well, not free - they come with the slip....)

They have to mow the weeds here it grows so fast... 

That's a unique watercraft.  It cuts the weeds and scoops them up and bales them.  

Tomorrow we enter the Trent Severn Waterway officially and pay lots of fees.  Joy.  But we are getting closer to home!

I don't know how much fuel we will burn in Canada but I suspect I'll eventually have to break down and buy a ton... Right now we've burned through our two auxiliary tanks and down about 1/8 on each of our main tanks.   

The cash pours through the engines when we are on plane but it's nice to have the option when the alternative is to stay put or get beat to death and seasick!

Boy does it feel good to be back on the big fresh water lakes.   My boat likes it too!  When we ran aground in South Carolina my speedometer pickup (a little plastic paddle wheel sensor on the boat bottom) stopped working.  It has not worked for two months.  (We still can tell speed thanks to GPS).  In the middle of Lake Ontario it came back to life!   Apparently it just needed fresh cold water and a bit of bouncing (for hours) at a high rate of speed!   Salt water wouldn't clear it as we ran 100 miles off the shore of New Jersey and it never read anything....

Almost 100 miles today as well.  You can see how zig zaggy the Bay of Quinte is ...  
Tomorrow we start THIS ....

You'd have to zoom in to see the details.  45 'locks'.   Much smaller locks than the Erie.  

I'm not sure we will post every day while in the Trent Severn.  Cell phone roaming is expensive and sketchy at best.  Our 'roaming' plan charges us $10 per 512 megabytes then shuts us down each day to old fashioned analog speeds.   If we can get wifi I might post otherwise we will wait until we have coverage again in the states....


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