LOCKED OUT!

Day 13  June 16, 2011  Sunny  L 65 H 85
Dep Lock 17 11:10  Arr. Little Falls 12:15
Dist 10m/420

Some days you just can't win. We got up early, had a nice breakfast and prepared to negotiate the fearsome LOCK 17! Fearsome because there are no cables or pipes to slide your line around, just ropes hanging down 40.5'. This is the biggest rise in the yhe canal, and...............it was broken. We debated going thru the night before after the Herkimer House, but decided to wait until morning as we were tired. Now we had to really wait. Since we weren't in any hurry we made the best of it and hiked up to the top to watch the repairs and chat with the crew. I offered my ex spurt opinions on how to fix it, but they seemed to think they knew better. Typical engineers! It was fixed by 11AM, we entered, made it thru with no problems and spent the afternoon in Little Falls doing laundry. The dock at LF was very nice and the dockmaster, Chris, was very friendly and helpful. And, only $40 including elec. and water, and the use of their nice building.


This is a deep one. Note this one has an overhead lift door as opposed to the swing open doors.



Hold that line!