Grrrrr

Lake Champlain

44 34.43 N 073 73 24.58 W

The weather yesterday (and today) is wonderful.  Warm, sunny, breezes about 17 knots.  Perfect weather for sailing.  The trouble is that everyone seems to have heard the spendid weather report.   I don't think we've ever seen so many sail boats out on the lake before.   There were far too many to count.  So, what did we decide to do?  Sail of course.

The down side was that we seemed to live under a black cloud of bad luck yesterday.  Everything seemed to go wrong.  One thing after another.   I know that readers like to read about our mistakes and disasters, but this time I'm not inclined to chronicle them.  Grrrrrrrr.  Suffice it to say that at the end of the day, we were glad it was over.

We anchored off the north end of Valcour Island; a place where we never anchored before because it is sheltered in one direction only.   The reason was that every other anchorage at Valcour was packed full with other boats.  Wow were there a lot of boats.  After dark, the numerous masthead anchor lights looked like a swarm of stars.  It appeared that 95% of the boats were Canadian and 95% were sail; a very skewed statistic.  Perhaps this weekend is the end of summer for Canadians; just as Labor Day next week marks the end of summer for many Americans.

The reward for anchoring out so exposed is that we had a front row seat to watch one of those spectacular sunsets as the sun sank behind the Adirondack Mountains.   Oh what glorious colors.  The far clouds glowed in bright gold.