June 27 - 29 Boat cleaning at Rouse's Point

Our friends Becky and Grover headed back to Asheville, and Greg and Lu decided to stay in Montreal until mid-week, Christine and I took the train back to Rouse's Point, NY.  We are here now working on the boat, cleaning and getting ready for the trip into Canadian waters.  Gaines Marina has a good mechanic.  He is rebuilding the carb on the "nearly new" mercury engine on the dinghy -- apparently the victim of a heavy dose of ethanol.   And we are waiting on parts to rebuild the oil exchange pump for all the diesel engines, which mysteriously bit the dust even though we have only had a few oil changes on this boat.  However, this down time is giving us time to catch up on other boat workings that are needed.   And, we can explore the immediate surroundings.  The first and second pics below shows the Lighthouse Marina that is closed due to the flooding.  It had floating docks attached to an old railroad bridge.   You can see how the entire marina was destroyed during the flood over the past month.  The third pic shows the mooring field overlooking Gaines Marina -- the wind stopped for about 3 minutes and I got a pic of a nearly calm lake.   Finally, the boaters around us joined us for some cheer.  They were all born in foreign countries: Chezch, Russia, and Canada.  We are learning alot from folks like these.