Another overcast morning, but at least it is not raining. We leave Fort Edward. We had only briefly walked into town yesterday, before the torrential rains let loose. Didn’t get to any of the few eatery's to pay back for the very nicely maintained free wall at Fort Edwards. Our plans are to stop at Mechanicville another very nice free wall, pump-out, power and very nice showers and bathrooms.
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| The Overhead Gate to the canal to Lock 6 |
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| The adjacent waterfall to Lock 5, Engine don't fail me now ! |
At Lock 4, the operator walks over to us and warns us about the wind gusts, before he lowers us. Fortunately we were the only boat in the lock. As we started to go down the wind picked up and Linda could not hold on to the slimy hanging lock line. I dropped my line on the stern and ran forward to grab Linda’s more important line. Once we secured the front line, the back end of the boat was free to swing towards the opposite wall. Would of not been a big deal, except we had 10 feet of mast with our wind instruments extending beyond our stern. Just as I started motoring forward, I hear metal scrapping behind me, but I am too busy to look back. We move forward and get the boat under control with just the one lock line. We were real happy when the lock door opened and we escape the wind tunnel. The only damage was a slight hook to our previously straight lightning rod that extends above our mast instruments. I will have to come up with some BS story why the hook in our lightning rod improves it’s performance over a straight one, in case anyone notices.
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| Cute little canal tug boat |
I had considered stopping at Waterford another hour or so further, but checking out their live Web Cam I could see the wall there was full. We get to Mechanicville around 2:30 PM. We are the only boat there and after pumping out the holding tank we tie up on the other end of the wall and relax for the rest of the afternoon. We head to “Bubbles” a popular local restaurant with an interesting menu. A couple more boats arrive, two sailboats and one cabin cruiser from Montreal.
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