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Aug 12 – Amsterdam, NY

We left Waterford at 7:00am Saturday morning. The first series of locks were immediately in front of us, so it was less than a 5 minute trip from the dock until we were inside the lock & ready to lift.

There was another boat in front of us & they entered the lock at the same time.

The Waterford Flight includes a series of 5 locks that lifts (or lowers) boats a total of 169 feet in less than 2 miles. It is claimed the only series of locks in the world to accomplish this elevation change in such a short distance.

Catherine liked going through these locks because all we had to do was keep the boat steady while the lockmaster opened & closed the gates & filled the locks. This was pretty easy compared to all the work she had to do on the locks during our narrow boat canal trip in England last fall.

We went through a total of eight locks and covered about 38 nm distance. Each lock had a dam close by & once the boat reached its top elevation it was easy to appreciate how much we had risen.

We stopped for the night at a small marina along the river in Amsterdam. By the time we got secured the sky was clouding over heavily & it poured rain for about an hour.

We introduced ourselves to the folks who were traveling in the trawler ahead of us all day. Kim & Judy are from Fort Myers FL & started an extended cruise this past April.

Today we will go through several more locks that are spread out along the Mohawk River & try to get another 35-40 miles distance covered.

Cheers!