Thursday 25 October 2007

Last Lock to the Ocean



We left Waterford on Wednesday and did the final lock on our journey to the ocean - the Troy lock - it was by far the largest lock we have seen so far. As we arrived at the lock, there was another Canadian boat (Le Temps de Vivre II) from Montreal.
We met up with them again on Wednesday afternoon at Castleton, which is the marina everyone seems to use to put up their masts. Our mast went up quite smoothly and we are a sailboat again !
On Thursday, we headed downriver to Catskill Creek where we tied up at a restaurant dock (free dock with a meal) and did some more work on the mast - Al went up the mast to install the wind instruments and the VHF antenna.