Friday continues the heat wave. We depart from Seneca Falls and head for Cayuga Lake. Once under the last bridge, we drop anchor and up goes the mast! Here on the shallow northern end of the lake the weeds are thick, and get tangled around the outboard and the rudder, and interfere with the new depth gauge's performance.
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| As we drop through the Seneca Falls lock, a rental canal boat locks up. Picturesque. |
It's nice to be sailing again, and we have a brisk tailwind from the northwest. Midday it veers more north and strong enough to reef the sail once. But within an hour we're back to full canvas. By mid afternoon we were wishing we had more canvas to put up, and as we head for an anchorage no amount of canvas would help as the winds just died.
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| Sailing Cayuga's waters. |
While out, Kristen makes a batch of chocolate chip cookies, baked in the grill. 'Twas our first attempt at cookies, and I'd say there will be many repeat performances!
We're anchored on the eastern side of the lake, about a dozen miles from Ithaca. Beautiful sunset then the temperatures drop and everything is soon covered with dew.
Aye Mates, ye better be out swabbin’ the decks at daybreak with all that free dew.
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