Day's 27 -28

• Sackets Harbor (Navy Point Marina) - Clayton NY Town Dock
• Start 8:17 am
• End 11:17 am
• Underway 3 Hours
• Locks - 0
• Distance 33.3 Av
• Speed 11.5 knots (first ½ 15 knots, second half 8 knots)

On Wednesday morning we left Sackets Harbor to finish our trek through Lake Ontario. We only had 33 miles to travel, but the first half was on Lake Ontario, and the second half was the Saint Lawrence Seaway. The lake was a little bumpy, with seas of 2 feet with an occasional 3 foot thrown in just for fun. Fortunately for most of the trip the waves were coming straight on our bow, making it a fairly easy trip. Once we reached the Saint Lawrence Seaway, the seas were flat.

We decided that we would spend two days in Clayton on the town dock. We spent Wednesday exploring the town and visiting the shops on Main Street. The town has definitely grown and become a little more upscale since the last time I was here at least 15 years ago.

While we were here, the local Harbor Host from the AGLCA (America's Great Loop Cruisers Association), reached out to us, and asked if we needed anything or information about the 1000 Islands. We invited them (Rusty & Melissa) over for Docktails. We spent the evening on the back deck talking about our trip, and what there is to see and do here. Hopefully we will see them again in Alexandria Bay.

The AGLCA is an organization that promotes The Great Loop, provides information on The Great Loop, and brings Looper's together. Harbor Host are individuals who live in or near various ports along the route, that have offered to help Looper's in any way they can. It can be as simple as providing local knowledge, to as much as helping get parts for your boat or repairs. Harbor Host have been known to loan cars, run errands and shuttle Looper's to airports. Rusty and Melissa offered if we needed to receive any packages, that we could ship them to them, and they would get the packages to us.

Thursday we spent the day at the Clayton Antique Boat Museum. They mostly have wooden boats the were popular in the early 1900's. After we were done at the museum we rode our bikes, to an off site storage facility that the museum uses for boats they do not have room for. While we were there the docent told us about a nice winery, just a mile up the road. (People in cars have no concept how far they really travel.) The winery was over two miles away. Thank god for electric bikes!

Angel is definitely holding up her side of the planning and entertaining. While we were at the winery she introduced us to a couple at the winery, and we spent an hour or so.

Tomorrow we will be heading to Alexandrea Bay.