July 10, 2014 Thursday

We're off for Canada.  No phone calls for two weeks or until back on the U.S.
Woke up at 2 am this morning with the wind blowing and our boat rocking like crazy banging up against the concrete wall.  Finally started to settle down at 6 am, thinking the weather man was wrong again we stayed in bed, caught a little more sleep until Don and Connie in the trawler in front of us were getting ready to head out.  We got and looked out the window, alot of the boats had already left so we made coffee, and took off. Lots of rolling going out the inlet, typical, wind didn't seem to be blowing but the waves were rolling straight out of the northwest with some wind, we were only able to do 3.9 to 4.6 knots with the waves making us pound on the bow at times.  Curt kept saying "it will settle down the farther out we get", and it did after we started to get into the 400 ft deep water about 5 miles away from Oswego.  Lots of fishing boats and trawlers still going by us as we were crossing Lake Ontario.  Finally 30 miles away from Ontario we could see the two smoke stacks which was the inlet to go into taking us down the waterway to Picton.  The towers and stones below them got bigger and bigger.  Waves settled down even more and wind changing around to the east, southeast.  Started to get 5.6 kts which really decreased our crossing time down 2 hours or more.  Nice.  Clouds started popping up but no storms.  Thank God.  Thank you to those who were praying for our safe passage.  Met John B the 25 ft O"day, they were looking for a place to get gas, Curt told them to follow us to Picton if they ran out of gas we would give them some, so they followed us, finally a boat smaller than us traveling about the same speed.  Made it to Picton around 8pm, tied up to the gas dock, Fairwinds happened to be right there, visited with them and made supper, walked around town.  Found a quilt shop, but 10:30pm, closed :(  Went back to the boat, nice quiet peaceful spot, great night sleeping weather, cool,calm.  Fishermen on the dock were catching big Walleye and large mouth bass.