Friday Sept. 20, 2024 Baldwinsville to Brewerton 31 miles and 5.5 hours
Learned Apres Sail was also headed to Ess-Kay Marina in Brewerton. Other boats on the wall either staying or headed west. We decided to lock through and travel together for the day. Quick call to the lockmaster at E24 and he had the lock filled, prepped and gates open. Easy drop down. Weather has been wonderful for days and today was another sunny and clear day. Hot for up here this time of year as we keep reaching into the 80's. Should be cooler in the lower 70's. It continues to look more fall like with colors popping on the trees - just not feeling very fall like yet. Pretty easy cruising all day. Wide rivers - Seneca and then Oneida. Some slowing down for docks and boats.
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| Back to nice clean waters and scenic landscapes |
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| Plenty of wildlife along the river including this pair of swans |
We picked up a couple more boats in our group as we approached Lock E23. We had been informed several days ago that the annual lock inspections were going on and we might experience occasional delays. Today was the day. Locktender informed us it would be a little while before he could get us through. We could see multiple people walking around the locks - just couldn't figure out what they were doing. Unusual as they normally operate with just 1 or 2 people. Seems they needed to kill all the power for the inspections, do the inspections, and then reenergize everything. Since we weren't sure how long the delay would last, we idled for a while. As the delay dragged on we opted to head to the wall. Got tied up and of course within minutes the gates opened up. Just how it goes sometimes. We got secured inside the chamber and celebrated our final lockage of the trip.
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| Smart boaters tied to wall at lock 23 while waiting for inspection to complete. |
Brewerton is located just off the shores of Lake Oneida - a pretty decent sized lake. We have not been able to run the engines up to speed for weeks now and decided it was past due. So, we drove past Ess-Kay and out onto the lake and ran the engines through their paces. You can see us looping out on the lake on our map. Everything went as hoped and expected. Hit our normal speeds at 1400, 2000, 2400 and 2900 rpm's. No unusual vibrations so still keeping my fingers crossed that little issue trying to reach the town wall in Pittsford didn't damage my starboard prop. Back to Ess-Kay where we'll put the bimini cover and radar arch back up, give the boat a well deserved deep clean and start packing up. Ultimate plan is getting the boat hauled at Winter Harbor Marina and put in indoor heated storage sometime next week.
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| Bimini and radar arch back in position. |
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| Journey for Sept. 20, 2024 |
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