Day 2-221 to Sackets Harbor via Clayton, NY

"Oh Honey, I just read that there is a Hand Weavers Museum in Clayton, and we missed it when we stopped at the Wooden Boat Museum". Okay guys. Of course, you would say "Well, we'll be going right passed there today, and it would be no problem to stop for a couple of hours". As it turned out, there is a free city dock right downtown about 2 blocks from the museum.

Judging from the pictures that she took, I missed a nice but small museum. However, all was not lost, since there is a large, marine-oriented Ace Hardware right in the middle of downtown.

She also took this picture of a very unusual hand woven purse. It certainly looks very intriguing, but I am not sure how useful it would be unless you were a army sniper in full camouflage. However, remember this is "art" on display in a museum.

On the way back to Lucky Us we found a great little cafe for a mid morning coffee, and the Admiral ordered me French Toast Fingers as a snack. I guess that I gave the correct answer (see above). The cafe had booths along one wall, and the back to back bench seat featured these replica wooden boat sterns on the ends. This is quite an elaborate  and beautiful piece of art and not "just" a bench seat. However, remember that we were in a town with a wooden boat museum, lots of gifted woodworkers and long, cold winters... There were five of these boat transoms, which were similar in shape but with different, fun names.

Then it was time to fire up Lucky Us and complete the rest of our planned trip of 54.2 miles to Sackets Harbor, NY. After only 4 days of having islands everywhere, it was a big change to come out of the St. Lawrence River into the wide expanse of Lake Ontario. As we reached Lake Ontario, I counted 68 of the large windmills that generate electricity. With prevailing westerly winds the east end of the lake is a logical, if unattractive, place to generate electricity. Once out in the lake we headed in a southerly direction between some large islands and the mainland toward our destination of Sackets Harbor. Finally, we turned east into the Black River Bay where Sackets Harbor is on the south side a few miles into the Black River Bay. We plan to spend 2 nights at Navy Point Marine to see some of the important War of 1812 history of this area and to rest up after our busy tour of the Thousand Islands.