We are up at 6:30. The Catamaran left about 6:15 and two more boats leave shortly after. Looking north I see 3 more sailboats tied up. Were did they come from? My first thought was they could not get through Lock 11 and had to come back here after dark. Turns out that even though the locks closed at 5:00 these three boats tied up to the wall on the lake side of the locks and the lock keeper decided to lock them up after hours at 7:00 PM. Now there are nine southbound sailboats! Since a lot more Canadians head south via the Erie Canal, I am getting concerned we are going to see a lot more Canadian cousins this year.
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| Early morning at Whitehall |
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| Each time we pass this building, I expect it to be a pile of rubble. |
The forecast is for rain and thunder storms today, but anything coming from the west is many hours away and most of the current rain has past to our immediate north. We push off at 7:30 and follow a single Canadian sailboat, a family with a bunch of teenage boys. We share locks all morning and both of us pull into Fort Edward just ahead of the afternoon rain and later some very impressive thunder and lightning storms.
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| Lock 7 at Fort Edwards |
Glad our Lightning rod is in the down position. We must of gotten 2-3 inches of rain. Two weeks ago they were talking about low water between some of the locks, hopefully we will not have a high water problems.
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| Rainy afternoon at Fort Edwards |
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