To Go Or Not To Go

Porter Bay, Vermont
44 13.82 N 073 20.60 W


I just talked to the lock master in Whitehall.  He says that the water level there is still rising.  The  lock may reopen tomorrow.  No guarantee.  However, they are losing the red/green buoys in the Hudson again.  Those will have to be replaced before they open for traffic.  That means at least another week.


So, what should we do?   Our choice is to head south.  We'll take the mast down tomorrow and hope that lock 12 will reopen, if not the whole canal.  If we must wait another week, we would rather do it at a place where we can at least go ashore.  We're getting cabin fever just sitting here. 


Heads, up:  We get no cell phone, no internet on the south end of the lake.  We will be out of contact.  No new blogs until we at least get to Whitehall.