We left Kingston's Porstmouth Harbour at around 14:00, and set a course for the K9 buoy, with a turn to the South West once passing it.  Our goal was to get through the False Ducks passage before sundown, and we not only met, but exceeded that goal due to perfect conditions.

Once we were beyond the passage, we were treated to the first of several stunning sunsets on this journey.

We continued to cross the lake through the night and arrived in Rochester at around 09:00, and immediately started feeling the heat of what would turn out to be a record high temperature... 110F or 44C.  This heatwave continued for 3 days.  We took a quick nap while we could still stand the temperature.  I included a picture of our sun dodger we made out of a blanket while we were parked at Shumway Marine in Rochester.  We went to the grocery store for some supplies at around 14:00, and then decided to get back out on the water so we could catch a breeze and cool off.

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We had a nice light breeze from the west which carried us all the way across the lake to Cobourg... it was only around 00:00 to 03:00 that we had to turn the engine on, as the breeze went completely calm.  We were treated to another sunset that evening, as shown in the picture.

It was around 05:30 that we took out the Coleman Stove, and made a pot of coffee that hit the spot just perfectly after sailing all night... You can see by Kevin's face that the coffee was pretty damn good!

After a nap and some lunch in Cobourg, it was time to start out on the longest run of the journey of 2007.  As we were heading out, again we had record high temperatures... we kept filling a bucket of water in the cockpit to douse ourselves every 10-15 minutes.

We were going to do a run all the way from Cobourg, to Sackets Harbor... Just shy of 100 Nautical Miles.  We ended up going about 120 Nautical Miles to avoid some violent thunder storms.  The red line on the chart was our planned course, the blue line is what we ended up doing, and the black circles are the areas that were getting pummeled by thunder and lightning.  Open the larger graphic to see the details.

At first, we thought about holding our course, but the violent winds and constant lightning told us that this one wasn't going to pass very quickly.  So we decided to run a little further north, while the storms continued to head east.  Very steep 6 to 8 foot waves were developing, so rather than take them side on, we checked the charts and opted to put Main Duck Island between us and the worst of the storm... The timing was perfect.  After that little reprieve behind Main Duck, we were able to make our Easterly course again for Sackets Harbor, arriving around 10:00.  A nap, some beers, and a great dinner at Tin Pan Galley.

The lake always looks best with no land in sight.

Final day on the water for this trip... an uneventful 7 hour run back to Kingston.  Finally a little bit of relief from the blistering hot weather... the storms that went through changed the weather a bit, pushing temperatures back down from the low 100's to the upper 70's.  Quite comfortable.