Sailing Vessel "Never Monday"

Wow, its been a busy 3 days,  and no good wifi for almost that long!! We arrived in Oswego, NY on tuesday afternoon and contrary ot what everyone says,  Oswego Marina HAS NO materials to build mast supports with!  Luckily there is a lumber store literally  a set of steps away! We spent the evening stripping the boat of all the sailing bits a bobs!  Wednesday morning we madly built a set of 3 supports.  One for each end and the middle support. The yard staff were great and got the rig down very quickly and safely!  We got compliments on the construction of our supports,  the yard manager said they usually have problems with the middle support being either too tall of too low!  ours fit just right!  After getting the masts secured (by this time is was just after noon) we headed out for our first locks on the Oswego section of the canal.  Ryan Sarah and Tracy handled  the lines like pro's ( sorry no photos as we were busy tending lines)  After the success of the first lo

Finally, we're off!   After two and and a half summers of work we finally left the dock FOR REAL!!  Saturday morning September 9th we finally left our nice snug berth in Whitby and headed out onto the lake!  Bye Bye Whitby! The morning started out cool and calm with virtually no wind at all.  So we all bundled up with sweaters and fall coats to keep warm!  Of course Ryan used my gloves when we first cast off, so my gloves were wet while his gloves which were still nice and dry!  As the day continued the wind built up a bit, but not to much.  we only managed to see 8 knots of breeze on average. Our boat needs a bit more breeze to really get going We motor sailed the whole way across.  11 hours of watching this Anti-siphon discharge "peeing" is enough to make any trip seem soo much longer and trips to the bathroom more frequent!!  For those of you that don't know that's the discharge from the top of the anti-siphon loop for the engine!  It serves a