Thursday, July 18 1 week 6 days into trip. We woke at 6am at first light, and cast off Lock 25’s walls at 639am. We wanted to get an early start to see if we could cross Oneida Lake before the higher winds came which are expected tomorrow and Saturday. Last night Lorraine put her […]
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Phil woke Lorraine this morning about 640am and we cast off from the dock 656am, ahead of schedule. It started off warm and we reached our first lock just after it opened at 801am in Macedon. It has the unfortunate reputation for the walls being the worse in the canal. We don’t have any more […]
Tuesday, July 17 We woke and went to Riki’s restaurant for breakfast. We each had their pancake special of 2 eggs, 2 pancakes and either 2 sausage links or 2 slices of bacon. Afterwards, we took some of the walking tour ending up at the cemetery and walking home along the canal. Pat picked us […]
We started out today with our ultimate destination to be Fairport, but we changed our mind during the day to stay at Spencerport, changed it back again after talking to my sister-in-law, to getting to Fairport. We left Holley docks at 815am after I talked with Melissa, daughter of S/V Senior Moment. She lives in […]
We had a relaxing start to our day, not leaving Lockport until 824am. We entered Lock 35 and immediately went into Lock 34, the first 2 locks in the Western part of the Erie Canal. Phil paid for a 10 day pass which is $37.50. It’s pretty amazing how quickly the water empties out of […]
Where we docked, it feels isolated, but in truth it isn’t as we found out last night when at 2-3am some people were close by and talking LOUDLY, enough to wake me up but not enough to really hear what they were saying. Don’t they know that we are trying to sleep? We had to […]
This morning in Tonawanda, we had a treat of bacon and eggs and toast for breakfast. We looked around to see what restaurants are in the area, but decided to manage our budget and not eat out. Phil said the food was better than a restaurant, so Lorraine was happy! We walked to the Post […]
We had a later start this morning Phil waking a little after 7am and Lorraine getting up at the late hour of 730am. We had to access the “L” locker for Phil to disconnect the wiring for the mast, so it was the perfect opportunity to take rearrange some items out of the L locker […]
We woke early this morning, not having a very good night sleeping after the wind shifted to northwest and pushing our boat onto the fenders between us and the dock, which squeaked loudly all night until Phil got up about 5am to put dish soap on the fenders, which helped the noise tremendously. Wish that […]
When Phil built the hard Bimini, he put a 3/8″ high fiddle around the top of the Bimini, drilled a hole in each forward corner big enough to put a fitting in there with barbed narrow end that a 3/8″ clear tubing could be attached to under the Bimini. The tubing is long enough to […]
Travels with the Dolsens 