Hi everyone,
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Well it has been a few days since we left port Credit and wireless internet is not so easy to use, most sites are passwod protected and then even if you can get a password it is still hard to get on even with our antenna system that Mark helped us with but here we are in Montreal On June 24, 2012.

Before I forget Happy Anniversary to Chris and Kim.  Chris left us yesterday, it was great to have him aboard and we will miss him.

Well now onto sailing adventures. I (Linda) had a moment thinking what am I doing, but it quickly passed.

It is a beautiful morning sipping tea and caughting up so here we go.

Last time we were just getting started, we left Whitby and went to Colburg a long sail yes, but we wanted to stop at Kingston so this was a good place to spend the night.  For once we asked for a recipicol and they gave us a dock with power, thought we scored big but no they dingged us for the charges and also wanted to charge for the internet. Nice little town but having to take a recipical with no power or water leaves a little bit to be desired from this club.  Beer was still cold though.

Next day we went to Belleville and guess who was greeting us at the dock, Howard. It was great seeing you and he was bunked out on the salon settee with the fridge humming in his ear, this wasn't the making for a good nights sleep, but after having a good meal and a few vodkas noise while sleeping was not an issue for anyone.

Well the next morning we were getting ready to leave and the wind is blowing across our beam making it difficult to get off the dock.  Great wind and we are stuck.  Well after a few attempted tries to back up with little room to move, we were able to finally get off the dock, get in to an empty slip and on our way.  The wind was great and we rolled out the genoa and motor sailed across the big Bay of Quinte and up the channel to Telegraph Narrows. 

We took the inside approach to Kingston, nothing eventful happening except a distress call right in the area where we were. Now what do you do?  Responding could delay you again but how can you go on if someone is in trouble.  Jack responded but another boat was closer so we continued on.  Our batteries started to act up a bit so we would check into Kingston and have this resolved.

At Kingston we we called Steve and Shirley to get someone to give us a hand with the battery problem. Well the guy who was going to check the alternator didn't show up, so we wasted another day.  We did get a call the next day from the alternator guy and he said they could come  around 1100 but everything seem to be operating fine so we declined as we did not want to wait another day but he did say he could help us out farther along if we needed it.  So far everything has been fine with the batteries.

After Kingston we anchored at Lindsay Island, one of our favourite spots in the Thousand Islands. The next day we motored down to the American Channel, the water was like a sheet of glass.  This way was well marked and easy fallow.  The current gave us a boost of a knot or two.  We past by some amazing cottages and two castles.

We went into our first lock at Iroquois, what a let down.  We dropped a foot.  The next four were quite a bit more, dropping forty plus feet each.  Well time is running on and we have to leave.  I will sign off and hopefully when I can get back on line, I will have pictures for you and our adventures with the locks and huge ships but with the pictures it will be much more interesting.

Jack and Linda
Xanadu IV