After about 18 miles slid by and we got nearer to Oswego we telephone John Wix (Safe Return)who had gone on to Oswego the day before, to get some info on space at the wall and he and Gayle had gone out into the lake to cross to Canada and found the conditions very uncomfortable so returned to the wall between locks. When we arrived between lock 7&8 there was plenty of space for us and a couple from Key West, aboard “5th Quarter” helped with or lines. We barely had the lines adjusted when Joe and Janice advised (and invited us) there was a burger cookout they were organizing – they were supplying and grilling their special handmade burgers and everyone else will just bring “what ya got”. We immediately accepted, provided the affair could double as Gregg’s birthday party (Polly had baked him a cake). When party time arrived there were 16 of us and the food was delicious and plenty of it. Polly baked up a pan of her spinach / cheese squares and I (RCB) made a pretty good batch of sangria. The burgers came from ships stores on 5th Quarter – they are doing the great loop route and stocked their boat with meat for the entire trip – hundreds of pounds in several freezers. One of their freezers runs on AC or DC or propane so they also have 400 (four hundred) pounds of propane aboard in 10 – 40# cylinders. That is self-contained to the max.