September 18, 2006 "Flight of Five"

Left Schenectady Yacht Club and traveled through locks 7 - 2 to Waterford. Locks 6 - 2 are the "Flight of Five" and drop you 33', 33.6', 34.6', 34.6' and 33.6'. It's amazing as they are all very close to each other! In fact, you can see the next lock in line while you're in the previous one waiting to go down on most of them. There wasn't much room on the wall at Waterford and we ended up way out on the end by a sailboat named "Caribbean Dream" owned by Nick and Karen from Toronto, Canada and headed south for the winter. We ended up renting a car so we could pick up our order from the West Marine store. We ordered a nice big new Bruce Anchor for our primary anchor (it's 66 pounds!). We had dinner with Nick and Karen at a nice Italian restaurant.