As the Weather Turns

Pump issue—what pump issue.  Best we can tell the pumping sound was a tree frog and the inverter had nothing to do with it. Fitz cleaned the contacts from the inverter to the batteries and it carried the refrigerator and anything we needed for over 12 hours. Nice to have the mechanic onboard.  Note we did not need the air conditioner.  Julia would say that the weather is absolutely perfect.  Lows at night are around 50 degrees and with the wind and rain it was nippy.  Today the high is said to be around 63…in the sun it is shorts and T-shirts.  We have had 2 days of wind and rain but this morning we woke up to sun and calm.  You would think that it would be perfect to cross Lake Ontario..not.  We went through the last Oswego Lock and fog covered the lake and was moving into Oswego.  So we pulled into the Oswego Marina, plugged in, washed the boat and prepared to hit the lake tomorrow.  Relax we are not on a schedule.

This is a good time to tell about the Duchess of Chaos.  In Phoenix we met up with a 41’ Gulfstar named the Duchess of Chaos.  Greg and Janis (about our age) are from Owensboro, KY/Kentucky Dam Marina and have been on the Great Loop for 7 months.  They have 5 adopted children and a dog on board, all well-mannered, well dressed and clean.  The children are aged 6 to 13 and they were docked behind us at Phoenix and again in Oswego and they have been nothing but cheerful, active kids—they informed us they were “boat schooled”.  They play beside the boats in the park-like grass, put on lifejackets only when near the water on the seawall or on the deck of the boat  They seem to be a great crew for locking and docking and the littlest one is really good at curling the rope just so on the dock.  All seem to be having a wonderful time—they reminded us of Leeton and Holden –one of the little girls looked at me and said “aww—you have a necklace” –Leeton loves my necklaces. Anyway, they are headed up the 1,000 Islands then the Trent-Severn, so we will probably see more of them along the way.  There is a special place in heaven for Greg and Janis—good, patient people.   This family is making the run across the Lake today so we called to make sure all was going well.  They said they got an early start and visibility was good enough and zero waves.  They are fine—I would have been a nervous wreck. 

See the fog behind the building, obscuring part of the stacks? 

Coming out of the last Oswego Lock

The Duchess of Chaos

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