June 16, 2017

Another day in New York and on the Erie Canal.  We woke up to rain but no wind,  so we turned the motors on and headed out.  We like being first in line for the locks and we have a lot of locks to go through.  By the time we finished today we had traversed 10 locks, 55 miles, and gone more than halfway through the Erie Canal.  Our

locks went from 8 feet high to the world's highest lock of 40 1/2ft.

The last lock was really something, it felt like we were in a cave on very slow elevator up to the top floor.  It rained ALL day and we were drenched rats.  But we were the only ones on the the water,  first in line and the only one in the locks.  In fact the Lock master was very impressed how far we had come today, we were too. Tomorrow more locks, hopefully better weather.

Aerial view of Erie Canal

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Going into the last lock

World's highest lock