Caribbean Cruising The Voyage to the Sun "The Erie Canal"
Bob, Don & Skipper Ready to Cast Off Southbound!
Finaly Off the Dock. Oct 23, 2005 1500
Bon Voyage!
Mike Dawson On Impulse Escorts Us On Our Way!
With A Fairwell Fanfare We Continue and Impulse Returns to Port!
No Wind and Grey Skies As We Motor!
Consultation With Bob!
Cozy Inside the Enclosure!
Good Luck!
Porridge Ugh! I actully Like It!
Still Motoring Across Lake Ontario!
Pulling Into Oswego After A Great Sail Overnight!
Build The Mast Rack Designed by Colin Daniels!
Went Well But Cold!
Ready to Step the Mast!
Waiting!
More Waiting!
Waiting Some More! My Turn!
Ha Ha Pilloried!
Oswego Crew Attaching Strap!
Very Professional Oswego Crane Crew!
Testing The Rack!
It Worked! Nice Job Everyone! Lets Tighten her Down!
Erie Canal HereWe Come!
Wait We Forgot Don!
Going Back For Don!
The first Lock!
Don doing What Don Does!
Gloria!
Bob On Lookout!
The Erie Locks Are Fairly Easy To Pass!
This Is Why The Locks Are Needed!
Wake Up Back There!
Miles And Miles Of This!
Paying Our Bill To Travel The Locks!
Lots of Grey Days & Rain!
The Lockmasters House!
Passed Under Many Bridges!
Water Levels Were High!
Gloria & Linda Worked hard In The Galley!
The Guys Didn't Work Hard In The Galley!
We Had A Visit From An RCYC Freind!
Nice Guy With A Nice Boat!
Guard Gates Being Raised!
On Our Way to the Next Lock!
Through Another One!
It Can Be Tedious!
An Occasional Vessel!
Two Ships Passing In The Day!
We Continue On!
Excitement.Brightly Painted Canal Barges Doing There Work!
You Can See Them Easily and They Will Move To Let Us Pass!
We Were Held at This lock #22 Due tto Flooding!
Two Days Later & An Exasperated Crew We are Making Way Again!
Historical Sign!
Lock 17 Is One Of The Highest Rise!
You Go Under this Huge Gate.Scary!
Eventually!
Erie Pennsylvania! Weird!
But Quaint!
It Was Halloween!
Another Lock!
Erie Eel!
The Fisherman
Traffic In the Locks!
He's Really Not Working That Hard!
Gorgeous Old Schooner!
Through Another Lock!
More Rain You will have To wait Some More!
See The Pretty Barge, Again!
A Good Rest Stop For Overnight!
Pretty Waterfals Over The Dams! Locke !At Troy NY!
On The Hudson!
Lighthouse In The Middle Of The River!
Go Figure!
Barge & Tug On the River!
The Tug!
Dinner
Preparation For Celebration In Castleton!
It Was October 31st & A Halloween Party Was At The Club!
Which Don Crashed!
Ready To Put The Mast Up!
Where Is All The Help?
Untying The Mast!
Pretending To work!
The Photographer Didn't Notice Anyone else!
Shame Shame Gloria!
Up It goes As Linda and Bob Crank The Ginpole Up!
And Up Higher!
Almost Off The Dock!
The Mast Is Clear!
Safely Stepped So Lets Take Off The Strap!
Thanks Don!
On Our Way With The Colorful Splendor Of Fall!
Looking for New York!
Washington Bridge!
Canuks In New York!
Not Much To Say. We Made It! Thank You Bob & Linda and Don & Gloria.
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Bob, Don & Skipper Ready to Cast Off Southbound!
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