Well, Cassandra and I have been idle a lot longer than I had expected. Inertia set in I guess. Cassandra was able to stay on the wall by the lock almost the entire time. One of our neighbors on the river was kind enough to let me tie here up to his dock while they were away on vacation. A week or so ago my friend Brian helped me move Cassandra to the wall downstream of the lock.
This week was Vacation Bible School at church and I had to run sound for it in the morning, but every afternoon I took Cassandra a little further up the canal towards Oswego again in an attempt to get her to Fairhaven for this weekend. For those who don't know, my friends and I always attend the Sterling Renaissance Festival and afterward go to a beach to swim. This year I hope to have Cassie join us at the beach. Yesterday Dad helped me through locks 2 and 3 in Fulton, and then my friend Dustin joined me at lock 5 to go the rest of the way to Oswego. Today is Friday the 13th and I'm hoping to step my mast and sail to Little Sodus Bay this afternoon. I'm just waiting for my help to arrive.
As a side note I saw a neat little tugboat docked in Minetto (Lock 5) The pilot house was mounted on stilts, and the stilts had hydraulic rams in them so that the pilot house could be lifted to attain a better view over the tow. I thought it was pretty cool, but I didn't have my camera with me. There are pictures from the rest of the trip that should be uploaded in the next few days.