YachtAweigh: Brewers Mills Ontario to Thousand Islands – Wolfe Island

Sunday, July 16, 2017

Brewers Mills Ontario to Thousand Islands – Wolfe Island – July 16, 2017

Jul 14^th – It was a cool cloudy day with a thunderstorm and scattered showers with moderate winds. We left the Brewers Mills Lock and headed 14 miles through 4 locks to Confederation Basin Marina in Kingston Ontario. We arrived at the Kingston Mills locks when they opened, however we had to wait for an hour or so as they brought a boat through the set of 4 locks. Once we got through the locks we had to sit at their blue line for an hour to time our departure with a bridge opening in Kingston which was 4 miles away. When we arrived at the marina we decided to walk into town to check out the downtown area which was fairly busy with activity, however I’m sure that it would have been busier if the weather was better. We expect better weather tomorrow for round 2 of our exploring.

Jul 15^th – It was a warm mostly sunny day with moderate to high winds. We stayed in Kingston to continue our explorations of the area. We walked to Fort Henry and followed a tour guide around to take in the official tour and then continued to explore the fort on our own. Afterwards we walked through town and grabbed a few things from Food Basics and then headed back to the boat. Looper friends of ours that live in the area, Lee and Janice (“Relax Now”), came by for a visit and after a cocktail we walked into town to have dinner. They left their boat near Lake Okeechobee in Florida and plan to head back this winter to enjoy the warm weather before they bring their boat back to Canada OR they may keep it in the south … Decisions … Decisions. It was great seeing them again!

Jul 16^th – It was a warm mostly sunny day with moderate winds. We left Kingston this morning and travelled 22 miles in the Thousand Islands along Bateau Channel and across the St Lawrence River and anchored in Brakey Bay of Wolfe Island. Along the way we noticed that the Parks Canada docks at their islands were full with weekend boaters enjoying the mediocre weather. When we arrived it looked like bad weather may be approaching however this didn’t stop me from going for a swim … the water was Exxxcellent … 70 degress F and great for snorkeling. Later a thunderstorm passed by and we were hit with a little rain thus I decided to diagnose my lighting issue on our back deck and I managed to fix most of my issue by replacing a positive wire that supplies power to the lights, however one of the lights isn’t working thus I’ll need to replace or rewire the light sometime in the future. I also ran the water maker for a while to rinse out all the remaining salt in the system with what looks to be the cleanest water we’ve seen since the Bahamas.