First, we received an e-mail today from Bob S. who was one of our 2 different "Greeters" at Lyons, NY. He was kind enough to send us pictures that he took as we were departing Lyons. Thanks Bob! We have many pictures taken from Lucky Us of locks the we were about to enter or had just left, but it is nice to now have pictures that show Lucky Us actually in the picture. Somehow the Admiral does not want me to leave her on the dock to take a picture while I go on ahead. Could it be that she is afraid that I might forget to come back and pick her up? Surely not...
Well, the weather forecast for today was not great, and we had not taken a day off for a while so... We had a leisurely time today in Fairport, as well as completing many jobs. I changed the oil on both of the main engines, which took about 2.5 hours. The time included running each engine about 20 minutes to get it up to normal operating temperature, and then pumping the oil out as quickly as possible before "bad stuff" had a chance to settle out of the oil. The orange 5 gallon bucket has a 12 volt DC pump on top, and the black hose goes to a brass slip fitting. From the slip fitting there is another hose that goes to the bottom of the crankcase. It is messy but efficient. After I pour the three gallons of new oil into the engine, I reverse the pump and pump the used oil into the empty gallon oil containers for proper disposal. Meanwhile, the Admiral did 2 loads of wash and vacuumed the boat so we will be heading out tomorrow all clean.
The dock walls on both sides of the canal were busy with boats leaving and arriving. At the end of the day both sides were pretty full of boats. Given that today is Sunday (June 29), the boats staying overnight must be folks on vacation. In the Spring we found that the transient slips were likely to be full on Saturday night, but then they were empty again on Sunday night.
We had lunch on board, but we went to a great Mexican restaurant for dinner. About halfway through dinner, the skies opened up with a real down pour and lots of fairly close thunder/lightning. Fortunately, the rain let up just as we were finishing dinner. We hurried back to Lucky Us before the next shower started, but we were also able to make a quick stop for two scoops of ice cream for me!
The weather during the day was quite warm and humid, but there were plenty of walkers along the canal and lots of canoes and kayaks on the canal. I even spotted this nice old fiberglass "speed boat". It was about 9 feet long and held just two people. With just a small outboard it would easily exceed the 10 mph speed limit on the canal. On the canal wall in the background is a small (home made?) gaff rigged sailboat with the mast folded down. Lots of sights of all kinds...
Tomorrow we plan to go further west (and up) to Brockport, NY. We are slowly getting closer to the west end of the canal. Somewhere along the way we plan to take another break and go visit Niagara Falls.
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