{"id":6423,"date":"2017-08-20T17:24:17","date_gmt":"2017-08-20T21:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/?p=6423"},"modified":"2017-08-30T15:25:22","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T19:25:22","slug":"august-19-day-50-holley-to-tonawanda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/?p=6423","title":{"rendered":"August 19 – Day 50 – Holley to Tonawanda"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Aug 19 – Tonawanda, NY<\/p>\n

The screenshot below shows our location relative to Buffalo & also to Port Colborne, Ontario where we plan to “officially” land in Canada on Sunday afternoon & report in to Canadian Customs.<\/p>\n

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On Saturday we travelled the last leg of our journey through the Erie Canal. We left Holley at 7:00am & arrived in Tonawanda at 5:00pm with a few interesting events along the way!<\/p>\n

As we approached the lift bridge in Albion the operator asked us to tie up along the wall for a while because there was a running marathon in progress & he could not raise the bridge until the last runner had crossed over.<\/p>\n

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We took advantage of this pause & fixed ourselves a second cup of coffee & watched the runners pass by. We were back underway in less than an hour.<\/p>\n

We were now putting the majority of locks & lift bridges behind us. One of the last locks on the canal had a large dry dock at the upper end & there were several workboats & barges stored in it. I would have liked to have stopped & looked around some more but we were anxious to get to Tonawanda before the end of the day.<\/p>\n

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The last several miles of the canal were also lined with large apple & tender fruit orchards & fields of corn & soybeans.<\/p>\n

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\nThe final two locks in the Erie Canal system are located in Lockport & they are pretty spectacular. The two locks are back-to-back so after you go up (or down) in the first lock the gate opens to let you directly into the second lock. The two locks combined change a boat’s elevation by 49 feet.<\/p>\n

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We made it into the first lock OK & were ready for the “lift” as soon as the lockmaster was ready to go.<\/p>\n

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There were lots of people on the bridges above watching the locking process.<\/p>\n

The lockmaster informed us by radio that a local tour boat was in the lock above us & that we would exchange places when the middle lock gates opened.<\/p>\n

When the first locking process was completed the captain of the tour boat radioed me & asked that I come in behind his boat before he would start to move. We proceeded into the lock & there was quite a bit of turbulence in the lock caused by water leaking in past the upper gates & the flooding valves. When the tour boat started to move his propeller wash combined with the other turbulence, forced our boat away from the lock wall & we began to turn sideways in the lock. At that point I had no choice except to complete a 360 degree turn & try for the wall lines again. While I was up on the helm flybridge trying to maneuver Catherine was down on the main deck with a boathook trying to figure out what the heck I was doing! We couldn’t hear each other because of the noise from all of the water leaking past the lock gates.<\/p>\n

To make a long story short, we finally got the turn completed, secured the boat to the wall lines & got lifted to the next level. I was very lucky to complete a full circle turn with a 34 foot long boat in a 45 foot wide lock without hitting the walls or breaking anything. It would have been neat to have a picture or two of that but my hands were “full” at the time.<\/p>\n

When we reached the top elevation I apologized to the lockmaster for the delay & he told me not to feel too bad as I was certainly not the first boat to get turned around like that & would also not be the last one to do that.<\/p>\n

It must have been quite a show for everyone watching from above. 🙀<\/p>\n

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After we left the lock we resumed our journey to Tonawanda. We arrived there about 2 hours later. It rained hard for about 45 minutes while we were underway but thankfully the rain stopped before we reached our destination. We were glad to have the locks & lift bridges behind us.<\/p>\n

Next stop – Port Colborne, Ontario.<\/p>\n

Cheers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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