Friday, October 27, 2006

Hurray we are finally on the Hudson River below the Troy Lock and free of the canal system!!!!!!!! Today was the Best on the Erie Canal. Calm winds and clear skies. This morning we woke up to Jack Frost on our decks and windows, but the sun dried up the frost. We were able to manage all the locks without any steerage problems. The last 5 locks were about 34 feet deep and Lock # 1 in the Hudson River was just 14 feet. We could see ourselves progressing down the Catskill Mountain Range and now we are at 37 feet above sea level at Troy, NY in the Hudson river. We are tied up to a floating dock-there is a 5 foot tidal range at this spot. There are two major low weather systems coming in this week-end so most likelywe will stay here until Monday and then proceed down the Hudson about 30 miles to the marina where our mast will be stepped up for sailing conditions.



One of the 9 locks we proceeded through today.
















Some of the locks had amazing dams, we would be on one side of the river and the dam would be on the otherside. If you look at the left hand upper cornor of this picture, that is a lock we had just come out of and the dam was on the otherside with an amazing water fall-just like Niagara Falls. When we were waiting for the boat to be lowered in the lock we would be hearing the loud thundering roar of the water fall in the dam!


A late autumn scene in Schenectady, NY