10/12/10, Brewerton, NY

We made it out of Oswego, our temporary home town.  The locks opened this morning at 7:00 AM and we were waiting at the first lock at 8:00, along with another sailboat and three power boats.  We made it through all the Oswego locks (1-8) and one lock on the Erie Canal (lock 23).  We are now at the entrance to Lake Oneida.  The trip on the canals only had us bucking 1.5 knots of current in the narrow spots.  It was a very colorful trip, with the leaves changing.  There were some tree branches floating in the river that we had to watch out for.  A few of the buoys were covered in weeds and almost completely submerged.  It was a cool and partially sunny day. 


                                              Our first Oswego Lock

After being raised up in the first lock

One of the other Oswego locks

                                   It felt good to be under way again.

Fall colors on the Oswego River