Another gorgeous morning albeit a tad cool. We had the furnace on for a bit just to take the chill off. Canajoharie was not quite as peaceful as we wanted, the trains did run all night complete with whistles! Oh well.

We left at 0900 and covered a lot of ground (water) today doing about 37 miles. I am using statutory miles according to the Skipper Bob books, you do the math. At the town of Amsterdam we stopped at a marina as we were informed there were showers there. Unfortunately they were not for transient boaters but the owner took pity on us when he got withing smelling distance and let us use the facilities! LOL.

The weather has again been wonderful. Blue skies, calm water, light winds and temperatures into the mid 20s. Actually the sun still has quite a bite to it when standing on deck locking through.

We were planning on only doing 32 miles today and stopping at Lock 9 but because of flood damage the lock was not offering overnight docking, or any kind of docking for that matter. We pushed on another 5 miles stopping on the east side of Lock 8. There was a high wall and a higher wall to stop at, obviously built for barges. Jorge and I picked the high wall, the lesser of two evils, but still tricky. We tied up but Gil and Diana opted to anchor around the island just to the left.

It was a full day but tomorrow we have only 23 miles and 6 locks to do until we finish the Erie Canal arriving at the town of Waterford on the Hudson. Jorge and I plan on celebrating this accomplishment by going out for dinner. I think we will stay a couple of days in Waterford as we will have put approximately 100 hours on the engine since leaving HYC so it will be time for some maintenance.