May 15, 2018 – Waterford, NY

Better day weather-wise than forecast but it poured hugely just as were pulling into a fuel dock. Didn’t last long and held off until we tied up. Did our first lock today with good success (nobody died). Although we saw no pleasure boats all day yet we had a cruiser and 4 other sail boats in the lock which is under 2 miles from the city dock at Waterford. Not being sure of the available space I used my advantage of first boat out and lucky I did-got the 2nd last place on the town wall. whew … Good dinner out and now into the scotch to ready ourselves for the 9 locks tomorrow. The 2 stooges do the Erie Canal 🙂