We got up with a planned day with “the boys” again in order to push through to a place near Oneida Lake.\u00a0 We have heard\u00a0steady winds\u00a0of 28 mph with gusts of 38 mph on the lake.\u00a0 I don’t think we’ll be heading over that lake today.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Several more locks, 6 more actually.\u00a0 My hands are about done.\u00a0 The fingertips no longer have any prints left on them and the fingers are getting a bit sore.\u00a0 In order to get through the locks you have to hold onto ropes that are suspended from the top of each lock but do not fasten at the bottom of the lock.\u00a0 So you have to pull the boat in.\u00a0 Today it was tremendously windy.\u00a0 Not only was I using the cleats on the boat for leverage but holding on and pushing with a poker to keep the fenders boards off the wall a bit.\u00a0 Scott hit the wall hard with a huge wind gust but knew he was going to hit so managed to hit just the fenders.\u00a0 Thank goodness we didn’t scimp on those little buggers.\u00a0 They have saved thousands in gel coat repair costs.\u00a0<\/p>\n
We did\u00a0make it to the east side of Oneida Lake.\u00a0 The lake was extremely rough with 6 ft waves, maybe higher so we stayed the night at a little place called Mariner’s Landing.\u00a0 They accommodated several strays boats with ease, generosity and hospitality.\u00a0 Even shutting down their fuel dock to accommodate us.\u00a0\u00a0 Louie you are the best!!!\u00a0 I’m going to have to send him a thank you for this one!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Scott and Aiden went to play at Sylan Beach where there was a antique car show.\u00a0 There is an amusement park but it has not opened for the season.\u00a0 I asked for a bit of groceries too and at that point Aiden was thrilled to get his ice cream cone.\u00a0 There was a beach volleyball tournament going on as well.\u00a0 If you have every played beach volleyball you will know how difficult it is to play when it is calm weather let alone when the winds are extreme.\u00a0 I think it was more of an attempt at playing beach.\u00a0 We turned in early to get ready for the next day.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We got up with a planned day with “the boys” again in order to push through to a place near Oneida Lake.\u00a0 We have heard\u00a0steady winds\u00a0of 28 mph with gusts of 38 mph on the lake.\u00a0 I don’t think we’ll be heading over that lake today.\u00a0 Several more locks, 6 more actually.\u00a0 My hands are […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-niagara","category-9-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lapointes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lapointes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lapointes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lapointes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lapointes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.lapointes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":556,"href":"http:\/\/www.lapointes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions\/556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lapointes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lapointes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lapointes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}