East to Fairport

Still rainy this morning; light, but enough that we knew raingear would be necessary.

We did 25 miles, 2 locks, and two lift bridges today. One of us has to do “bow duty” through the locks... Joan’s choice. She looks good in yellow!


Not much traffic on the canal. We saw two pleasure boats coming out of a lock as we went in, and this big fellow when we came to the junction of the canal and the Genosee River.




The gray day made for some interesting pastel looking photos. Once IN the boat, we were plenty dry and comfortable. Much of the greenery we saw looked furry, thanks to the soft light.



As we cruised east, our chart plotter began to see some of the satellite imagery that we overlay on the electronic charts. That gold patch is no detail at all; the little back dot 2/3 of the way down is our boat. And that stuff you can see in the upper corners is the satellite image coming back in. Another 30 miles or so and we should have chart coverage again, too.

We ran into our first “glitch” with a bridge or lock passage today. Coming into Fairport, I called on the VHF for a bridge opening. It was 12:09. No answer. I called again. And again. No response. I gave a long blast on our air horn... no response. We looked up the phone # for the bridge and called them on the cell phone... no answer. After a half hour of waiting, I put Joan on the closest dock and she walked to the bridge house. Just as she got there, the guy who should have been running the bridge walked up with a sandwich in his hand. Yep, out to lunch. It was 12:53 when I passed under the raised bridge.

We pulled up to a spot on the wall at Fairport and settled in for the day. Lunch out, a bit of walking around, and the plan to visit the Farmers Market in the morning.


It stopped raining for a while, and we sat out in the cockpit. Izzy came across this guy. That’s a snail. Apparently, Izzy has no taste for escargot.

Over the bridge and into the ice cream shop. We even saw a rainbow.


About 6:30, the local cruise boat went by... it was just starting to sprinkle again, but there were some hardy souls up on top. Within a few minutes, it was pouring again... I’m guessing those people came down inside the boat. No lightning, no thunder, no big wind... yet.