Lake Champlain - Stats and Observations 

The lake is 120 miles long and 10 miles wide at it's widest point.  The greatest depth is 400 feet.  Seventy islands are within the lake's waters.  It runs along the state lines of New York state to the west and Vermont to the east.  The Canadian border (Quebec) crosses the north end.  New York state's Adirondack mountains run along the western shore while the Green mountains of Vermont run along the east.
Ferries cross the lake at 3 points while only one bridge, the Champlain bridge, crosses to join New York state and Vermont.
Properties bordering on the lake vary from farm land, cottages, camps, small towns and numerous parks.
Many ice cold mountain streams flow into the lake.  The silt/sand at their mouths extend great distances offshore which makes for very pleasant swimming.
The landscape reminds us of Northern Ontario with it's rocky shoreline, pine trees and blueberry scrub.  While sailing in September we are reminded of Northern Ontario even more as we are awakened each morning by the call of the loons to the single digit temperatures and heavy dew on the deck.  The full plastic enclosures we see most boats equipped with are starting to make sense. 
We find a greater concentration of boats here than we've seen in quite awhile.  One night, in Mallett's Bay, we dropped anchor with 170 others - mostly showing a home port of Montreal.  Never have we seen so many large (40+ feet) boats, mostly newer models of Beneteau and Juneau.  We can only assume there must have been quite a sale on sail in Montreal!
When we approached a marina regarding transient dockage we were advised that they were full - 400boats made up of 390 Canadians and 10 U.S.