July 18, 2015 Day 28 New
York Summer 2015
Winter
Harbor MarinaBrewerton, NY
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| Colin's beautiful photo of the Erie Canal as we left Rome, NY |
We
left Rome, NY at 0800 as planned. It had rained earlier in the morning but
stopped before we departed. We only had
two locks to transit. Both locks E-21 and E-22 were a 25’ drop and were fast!
We
received a phone call from Peg, a fellow Looper who was a day ahead of us
warning us that we probably would not find a space on the free walls in Sylvan
Beach. She was right! Sylvan Beach was holding some kind of pirate event and it
was packed. We even saw some boats rafted three deep. So, we continued on, and
immediately called Winter Harbor Marina in Brewerton to make a
reservation.
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| No room at Sylvan Beach |
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| Following Movin' On into Oneida Lake |
When
we crossed the lake we entered the narrow Oneida River at Brewerton. (As a point of reference, Brewerton is just
north of Syracuse.)
We
arrived at Winter Harbor at 1:25 along with Movin’ On and tied up behind Gold Loopers, Jim and Peg on Sanctuary.
We quickly decided to spend two days here. We were tired, we needed
to get chores done, we needed to provision, there is more rain in the forecast
for Sunday, and the marina has two courtesy cars!
We
borrowed a courtesy car at 5:00 and went to dinner with Colin and Dawn at the
Coppertop Tavern, about an eight mile drive to North Syracuse. The food was very food
and we were happy our harbormaster recommended this restaurant!!
We
all came back to our boat and yes, played “Ticket to Ride”. Dawn almost won but
Bill persevered once again. We finished the evening with ice cream.
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| Thanks to Colin for taking this photo of Carried Away on Oneida Lake |
Tomorrow’s plans are to get chores done and to borrow the car again to do provisioning.
