Oswego NY

No pictures. The only picture I took today was of a nuclear power plant. I was going to put it in the blog with a caption, "the cost of air conditioning". But I'm far from an eco-nut as I power through the Lake Ontario chop with my black smoke coughing diesel. So today you just get the blow-by-blow.... He he he, get it, were on sailboat....

We left Henderson Bay NY this morning at 8:00. We were supposed to leave at like 6, but that didn't happen. Sue me... We sailed out of the anchorage, and had a great sail for 2 hours, then it went to shit. 9 1/2 hrs from anchor up to docking in Oswego. Motor-sailed most of the way. Found out today what people mean when they say a Bayfield needs lots of wind. When the winds dropped below 10 knots, the waves were more powerful than the boat, and we couldn't point at all. And; since we needed to go to windward, we needed to turn on the engine. It sucked, because we watched other sailboats continuing on, having no problems. Mind you, they were the same boats that stayed in harbor yesterday while we were out bashing through the nasty stuff.

Here we are quiet in Oswego, enjoying the great Yacht Club they have here. And its nice. Free night, and the first beer is on them, how cool. Unfortunately, we can't get our mast down until at least Monday, because the marina is closed for the weekend. That means we have to pay for dockage for two nights, an expense that wasn't really in our budget. But then again, neither was the fish and chip dinner tonight. Such is life.

Anyway, nothing exciting. Tomorrow we have to get some work done, strip the sails off the boat, and build a craddle on deck to hold the mast. By the way, Serena did not get seasick today, so a good day had by all crew. She is tired now though, we both are, dead tired. Goodnight world.