Iroquois Lock 9/24/2011

We made some great time today because of the current in the St. Lawrence. We pulled anchor at 0700 and headed into light fog which lasted til early afternoon. At first we impressed ourselves with a boat speed of 7 knots but as we passed Alex Bay and headed towards Brockville we were doing 9.6 knots which was awesome! Our chartplotter went blank after Brockville so we had to rely on our paper charts. Thankfully two tankers passed us so we followed them to the Iroquois Lock....the downside-we waited from 3:00-5:00 at the floating dock as commercial traffic has priority in these locks. We anchored south of Ogden Island for the night.