Just a quick update...
We pulled out of Brewerton, NY on Sunday morning at 6:30 and finished the Oswego Canal just before 11:00am. We got out onto Lake Ontario and it was as forecasted; 3 to 5 feet, but it was supposed to subside to 1 to 3 feet later in the day. By about 4:00pm the seas laid down a bit and we had a pretty good ride all the way to Port Dalhousie, Ontario. We covered 177 miles in 12 hours. The reason for the long day was the forecast for Lake Ontario on Monday. They were calling for building seas 3 to 5 with winds 20kts.
Good thing we covered the lake yesterday. We got up this morning and I checked the forecast; small craft advisory with seas 4 to 7 feet. We pulled out of Port Dalhousie to make the 3 mile run over to the Welland Canal. We got the crap kicked out of us this morning. There is no boat that likes 7 foot seas. Anything that was on the counter was on the floor very quickly.
We picked up our third deckhand at 7:00am to transit the canal. Unfortunately, we have a large cargo ship in front of us and are tied up on the wall waiting until around 10:00 to begin our passage. We don't expect to complete the canal until around 6:30pm tonight if everything goes perfectly. So we will tie up at Sugarloaf Marina in Port Colborne, Ontario for the night and make the short trip across Lake Erie in the morning to Buffalo.
I'll try and update again tonight with a few pictures of the canal.
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