Oswego New York to Kingston, Ontario, Canada

We arrived at the end of the Canal System on Saturday and went to a small Evangelical Lutheran Church in Oswego, joined by a boater friend Tata who has a very interesting background in the plant business and a great testimony.

The weather had been rainy, but things cleared up for our planned Monday morning crossing of Lake Ontario for Kingston. The weather forecast called for winds from the South at 10 to 15 knots. This meant following seas, which is tolerable. This is not what happened. As we came out of the breakers from Oswego harbor, the winds were coming out of the West in the 15 to 20 knot range. This is called "beam seas", meaning the boat is rocking heavily from left to right as the 4 to 6 feet waves were rolling under us from port to starboard. Not expecting rough seas, we didn’t batten down the hatches like we should have. The first thing to fly off the counter was a goblet of over 200 tiny sea shells Marlene had collected on a beach with Lisa. Then just about everything else that wasn’t fastened down toppled over (chair, plants, fruit, candles, books, etc…)

Leaving the boat on autopilot, I went down to check on the Admiral who decided to ride it out in the main cabin. However, she was sitting on the bed in the aft cabin after having lost most of her breakfast. Being the strong one, I, of course had to keep my responsibilities as Captain and would have no problem riding out this inconvenience --- until after about 2 hours it became apparent that the Captain can still maintain control of his ship while throwing up ---- 3 times over the five hour ordeal.

We arrived into a welcoming harbor in Kingston around 3:00pm as it was beginning to rain. Both of us went to bed around 7pm and slept about 12 hours.