We are leaving, only 2 days after our planned departure date. As it turns out, it has been too windy the last couple days to head south with our mast in its deck cradle.
Our house guests, Ken & Donna Nitchie are staying for another week or two visiting with old friends and enjoying the leaves turning before they head home to the Chesapeake, Hayes, Virginia, just across the York River from Yorktown. We first anchored in Sara’s Creek where they now live, years ago before they moved there. Now our recent visits to Sara’s Creek are even better, they have a dock!
After a number of late nights and early mornings, taking care of most everything we needed to do to sail off for the next 9-10 months, we are ready to leave. Ken & Donna drop us off at Champlain Marina where our boat is, after taking down the mast a few days ago. Cool morning with very little wind as forecast. We leave a 10:00AM, a record for us, our past best was noontime.
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| Heading to Rail Road cut |
As we get out on the main Lake and head south the wind starts to pickup, but on the nose it is not a problem. We get in contact with a couple friends who live in North Shore and wave as we go by.
Early afternoon, near the Charlotte ferry crossing we cross tracks with Leonard & Lynnea Rosner sailing on their red hull, boat Antares. Always easy to pick out at a distance. They have been sailing to the Bahamas off and on for over 40 years and after returning last spring they said, that was their last trip south on Antares. We will miss seeing them, their trip south always coincided with our trips south. We would cross paths in the Bahamas and along the east coast.
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| Antares |
We decide to anchor for the night just north of the Pulp Mill plant in Ticonderoga, NY. When we arrive there is one Canadian boat, mast down, anchored. We actually go to bed at “Sailor’s Midnight”, 9:00 PM. We are pretty tired and get a good nights sleep.
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