from St Catherine to Point Breeze

Thursday, August 9, 2012

from St Catherine to Point Breeze

We stayed the night outside of St. Catharine’s waking early wanting an easy run to a safe port. The weather report was forecasting storms. We looked at the maps and decided a 20 mile run to Olcott N.Y was just the ticket. I caught the sunrise off the lake and we raised the anchor and started out. We called the marina in Olcott – they close at 5pm. We would be there around 1 and would call to get all the information to come in. This is a river community so you need directions.

Well we got to Olcott and called, left messages, called; left messages- an hour later still no word- we looked at the next town up and another 4 hours and left. We called Four C Marina and we could tie up at the end of a pier – they close at five but no problem.

Point Breeze is on a river. The entrance has a horizontal break wall in front of the channel. Our charts said that this was pretty shallow 6’ to 7’. We should be able to clear it, then the channel opened out to river and the Marina was on the Port side, lots of water under us.

Now those of you who read the blog or my Face book posts and keep good thoughts for us – they work. I got a little miffed going in and turned heading us out and away. Just got a bad feeling about going in and Tom’s instructions wore thin, it was a long day – anyhow. Rochester was another 4 hours away so it was stay here or gets tossed around on the anchor – I wanted a shower.

Tom took the wheel and instead of coming in on the western end we came in on the eastern end of the T. Our depth sounder beeped at us but we motored on through, no scraping sounds, or sudden thumps. We found our dock; actually did not have a hard time coming in. Tom’s new docking procedure is working – and we got power and a meal and showers. The marina is more for fishermen, but they were helpful and Diesel was cheaper than in Rochester.

The thing is everyone said as long as you come in on the western end there is no problem. The Eastern end- where we came in – has a big rock – even jet skis have grounded on it. I know someone was taking care of us and just knew that we could not deal with hitting a rock. We were lifted up and over and safe.

Thank you everyone and please keep the good thoughts and prayers coming.