Burton Island

Day 6. Our journey to Burton Island began with with an west-east sail through an area known as the Gutt, which required us to wait for the bridge to raise. The gentleman controlling the bridge was as friendly as can be - on the radio and waving as we past by. He was a great ambassador for Lake Champlain.

Once on the east side of the Gutt, the wind was a steady 15 knots and we had a most pleasurable sail. Kathie took her fishing pole out and we trolled a bit, pointing closely into the northern breeze to keep a slow but moving pace. This was the most fun sailing of the entire trip!

Burton Island offers a small cove with moorings. We were the last of the group to arrive for the day and found Barbara, Zusammen and Change of Heart enjoying the beach.

In the morning many of us enjoyed a cooked breakfast at the small food shack. Delicious! While we were waiting for our food, the Burton Island Ferry (a good 75' feet long) was pulling up to the dock, then suddenly stopped. We heard its horn, and then its captain yelled something to shore about a dingy being in the way. It seems that some jerk had left his dingy tied up right where this large boat needed to go. I ran quickly to the dock to move my dingy. After docking, the Captain of the Ferry said that he was considering using my dingy as a new type of fender for the ferry, but decided instead to be kind.

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