Dot's Way Cruising Cat: Sylvan Beach leaving Erie Canal and entering Oswego Canal to Oswego, New York

We got an early start leaving Sylvan Beach as the wind was going to pick up going across Oneida Lake. We had a smooth ride across the lake zooming for part of the distance and then when we reentered Erie Canal is was a no wake zone with warning that locals would call police on speeding boats. It was a pleasant day going through the locks on on own and then after lock 23 on the Erie Canal we turned up the Oswego River and went through three locks on on own waiting for the group of three ahead of us. Those three boats then slowed down and joined them for locks 5, 6 and 7 which was difficult with the wind and the way the cables were situated to make it impossible to loop a line around. We made it to Oswego and found a great spot on the wall down from the skate park with covered picnic tables. The wind was still howling so we ate our leftover chili and enjoyed a pleasant evening down below.

Entering Oneida Lake

Bridge art

Erie Canal to the left and we turned right on to Oswego Canal

Watching the boats go by

Historical old locks

Phoenix looked like a good stopping place

Lock behind us with drawbridge going back down

We had our choices of two diners open for breakfast and chose Wade's Diner with homemade raisin which we bought a loaf of to go. We stopped by Wayne's Pharmacy to pick up continuation of antibiotics for 10-day regimen for my tick bite. The redness has almost faded but still the size of a silver dollar. We continued our walk to Ace Hardware and found two boat hooks, two fifty foot dock lines and propane tank fixture we had been hunting. If they had bigger boat fenders we would have gotten everything on our shopping list. We enjoyed the walk through town and instead of going back across the bridge we tried the walkway along the canal but it was blocked for construction. We spotted a grocery store near the the old railway pedestrian bridge that we came back across on. We had a chat with Shellerina the lead boat and a golden looper which means they have done the loop before. We headed back our along the dock to the Fort Ontario State Historic Site. We went back across the bridge and walked along the canal passing the H. Lee Whit Marine Museum to the Oswego Wet Pierhead Lighthouse and by Wright's Landing Marina to Breitbeck Park. We stopped by the grocery store on the way back to the boat.