Cedar Island State Park, NY July 26, 2015

It is not a beautiful morning in Brockville. It is raining, cloudy and foggy. It was forecast to rain last night, but to stop at 6:00. It's 7:30 and still raining. In fact, it did rain quite hard all night. We had thunderstorms and lots of lightening. The good news though, is that my front hatch did not leak all night!

We taped the bag on the ceiling in case it did leak. Who wants to get up in the middle of the night and deal with a leak. This morning one side of the bag had come off the ceiling, but  there was no leak and no water in the bag.

Too bad I did not hit the post button. Kerry just yelled that a drop hit her pillow. Darn! I was ready to claim victory. However, I think I saw where it is leaking and stuffed a tissue there. It appears to be where the glass meets the rubber seal on the starboard side. I may have to ship the hatch back to the manufacturer over the winter. In the meantime - where is my bottle of Captain Tolley's Creeping Crack Cure?

We plan to leave at 10:00 today and hope to stop at Singer Castle on the way. Our tentative  plan is to anchor at Summerland Island, which is an American Island just across from Grenadier Island. If that does not work, we will likely go back to Grenadier for the night.

One item I hope won't have to be mentioned anymore is Jim's head - not his actual head but Liberty's head. Seems it is sounding different and gives a little gargle when flushed now which it did not use to do. A broken head would shut a boat down about as quick as anything. He has ordered a rebuild kit which will be shipped to Kerry's sister for delivery when she joins us August 3rd. Good luck, Jimbo!

We left Brockville at 9:45. We all agreed that this was one of our favorite ports, a must stop if we come back to the TI. Another favorite was Picton. Kerry and I think if we come back we will do so via the Erie Canal. This would bypass the Welland and we could scoot to the TI from Oswego, NY pretty quickly.

The sun was shining brightly when we arrived at Singer Castle. The dock hand, Zech, was excellent. He turned out to be our tour guide too. The castle is really interesting, full of secret passages and, for the times, some high tech gadgets.

Zech pointed out that Cedar Island had a State Park and it was right across from the castle. Since we were looking for a spot we decided to try it. We anchored in 3 places before we decided we were happy, but like where we are now.  The trip covered 12 miles. I even went for my first swim on the trip. The water was brisk, and the swim was short. 

We rowed the Debbie K to the island and enjoyed cocktails in the gazebo on the point. It is a great setting for cocktails. 

We pulled the Debbie K on the dock during cocktails. There seemed to be a lot of water in it. While most of it was probably from the rain, we were not sure if it had developed a water leak, and we wanted to make it back to the boats. Jim had pumped most of the rain out he thought. But we knew it would not sink on the dock. And, not previously reported, the port tank leaks a bit, and enjoys a little air to be added on a regular basis. We made it safely back to our boats. I think it was the last voyage of the Debbie K on this trip, as Jim mentioned Alexandria Bay would be a good place to pack it up. We go there tomorrow.