July 15, 2011

Today we headed for Hastings.  Only Crawdad and I are going, so we left about 8:15 AM to catch the first lock.  We ended up with another boat; an Ocean Alexander called Sea Flat.  We had some excitement in Lock 1 – the lock tender was helping push Sea Flat off and she slipped.  She was still holding onto the railing of Sea Flat and was able to pull herself onto the boat and not fall in the lock.  Exciting start to the day!

We were going to do another 6 locks today, but Kate called ahead to see if there was room on the wall above Lock 18.  The Lock tender said there was only room below the lock, so we stopped there.  There was no hydro or water, but it was a neat spot.  We sat on the back deck for cocktails and ate above.

We also met a new boat –“Coconuts” – they are heading north also.