May 29th Post

We are in the Erie Canal and cruising up the Mohawk River. The name of the game is “Log Dodge” as the river is filled with the spring debris from the runoff. The weather has been rain for the last three days but, in the river, it is flat with a downstream current, wind and waves not being a factor. Judi is at the helm about 50% of the time now and we are now adept at locks, after 16 in a row. We are now 320 feet above sea level, 415 NM from Plymouth, and tomorrow we will be at the maximum elevation on the Canal of 420 feet above sea level.

We have met a few other boats doing the loop and a number that are returning to Canada from the winter in Florida.

We expect to be in Lake Ontario by June 1st and then on to the St. Lawrence and the Thousand Islands, downriver to Montreal.