Wednesday, June 26, 2024

Waterford through to E10 Lock, on the wall near Cranesville, New York

 We walked to an early breakfast and were there when they opened the doors at 7 am. It was a delicious diner breakfast and we headed back to the boat for the first lock opening. Because of a valve issue, they were only allowing four boats in so we watched and waited. The boat in front of us moved up and we thought we were going to be the only boat going through but then  trawler Avalon joined us through lock E8, The first six locks had cables that you wrapped a line around midship. Then the next locks were to hang on to a bow and stern rope from the lock wall. At lock 8, the lock tender made Avalon move up and that was frustrating enough so they ended up stopping on the wall  outside which had a nice park and easy tie ups. We continued on through lock E9 which had floating debris from the dam spillway  in the way. There was no place to stop so we continued through lock E10 and saw the smooth wall and bollards on the other side so we stopped for the night. We were unable to reach anybody at Amsterdam Riverlink Park and the next stopping point would be through Lock E11 and we were tired for our first day out. We enjoyed happy hour on the back benches in the shade and had a mild rain shower and not the thunderstorms predicted. It was noisy when the freight trains rolled through during the night but no way to avoid the train noise.

Our lock buddy Avalon

The lock filling

Glenn at the wall holding rope
  
Security gate down from the lock

Tractors harvesting the duck weed

Deer along the bank

Plenty of Amazon train containers

Just us and the geese along the E10 lock wall for the night

Cranesville Block Company

Reflections on a calm evening


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