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Schuyler Yacht Basin office and deck
This gate is used to control the water along the canal.
We got an early start right after the folks aboard "Touche", American Tug, and MTOA members stopped by and brought us 2 homemade muffins. I gave her some sprigs of my basil. After the Kadey Krogan left, both tugs left the dock wall and headed down the narrow channel and under 2 bridges. The American Tug headed north through lock 7, and we headed through the dredging activity again going south. We were behind a large pushed by a small working tug and had to keep communication going with the dredges.
Lock 5 had 2 boats in it, and we rushed to get there. I had to quickly move the 2 orange fenders bow and stern since we had to move to the right side of the wall. I always keep 3 black fenders ready on each side. The one fast cruiser who pulled up to the left lock wall was at the back end and we could not fit between him and then pass the Krogan to get in front of him. He would not move which is not really good lock etiquette. The lock master said to come up, yet suddenly he closed the lock doors just about in our face. We were 2 minutes from the lock! So we had to doodle for 20 minutes while he locked them through and then filled the lock up again. We believe the cruiser guy was in a hurry because when we reached lock 5, the Krogan was doodling to get in since the lock master there passed the cruiser through since it travled faster and did say he "was in a hurry".
We arrived at Schuyler Yacht Basin just before the heavy down pour hit. Jim walked up to the grocery store, and I did a small load of laundry. The sky is still gray, but the air is cooler. Thunderstorms are in the forecast for the next few days.
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