Originally we had planned to stay in Kingston, but with all the weekend boat traffic we stopped early at Gananoque. This meant that today our trip would be longer, but  the weather was nice and the water was calm so we enjoyed the scenery as we made our way to Picton. We departed right at 7am and arrived at 2:45pm. The distance traveled was 48.3 nautical miles (55.5 statute miles), so our average speed was 7.2 mph.

There is not much at Picton, but we booked a slip at the Picton Harbour Inn, which was as close to downtown as you can get. This was good and bad because although it offered us easy access to town, it also allowed easy access to the dock for anyone else. There were people enjoying the river, eating dinner, and fishing on the docks until dark.

The one big thing we accomplished today was installing our dinghy on the davits. We had stored the dinghy in the crawlspace of the boat as we made our trek northward, but now we are in waters that we might want to use it. So we inflated the dinghy and attached the Torqeedo electric motor for a short cruise around Picton Harbor. Everything worked as expected so we snapped the dinghy onto the back of the boat and pulled it up into travel position. This makes the dinghy much more useful as a life raft in case of emergencies and allows us quick access when we want to explore.