Thursday, June 28

On Wednesday evening, after going through 6 locks, we stayed the night at the Schenectady Yacht Club.  It turns out it is a historic site of the old Erie Canal.  Stone work from the locks and the Rexford Aqueduct remain.  The stones were right in front of where we docked.

The original Erie Canal opened in 1825, after 8 years of construction.  By 1918, the canal was enlarged twice; dams were built to create long, navigable pools, and locks were built adjacent to the dams to allow water traffic to pass from one pool to the next.  Before that, aqueducts were built to transport boats in a brige-like format (such as the picture above). 

After a nice morning walk on Thursday, Captain Dave does his morning routines of checking the engine room and preparing for another day on this wonderful adventure.

We see various towns, with beautiful bridges, homes, and landscape.  Take a peek:

 

After going through 7 locks, we stop at the Canajoharie Terminal Wall.  Terminal walls were built to accomodate travelers who needed to rest for the night while traveling through the Erie Canal.  We were lucky, this one was brand new with electricity and water.  The reasoning for the newness; big floods that came through the canal in 2006, as well as the destruction from two hurricanes in 2011.

Canajoharie is also the home of Beech-Nut :)