July 4, 2011

Happy 4^th of July!  We hope everybody had a wonderful holiday (Kate told me to say that).

Today was a very long day. We started at 7:05 AM and didn’t finish until 6:00 PM.  We did 10 locks today.  Part of the problem was waiting for other boats to leave the locks – oh well.

When we left Schenectady this morning we ran into racing sculls (just like last year!).  It was a bit cool today and somewhat breezy.  We had a bit of a problem in Lock 8 (the first one we did), but Greg decided to open the greenhouse up and that seemed to help.

I was really upset because there is a lot of debris in the water here, especially around the locks!  I was dodging branches and logs all day!

We traveled with “The Old Grouch” and another trawler named “Grace” today.  We all ended up at Little Falls Canal Harbor.    Time for a rest!