The Erie Canal Experience

Friday, June 23, we left the Albany Yacht Club and continued north up the Hudson River through the Troy lock to the Visitor’s Center dock in Waterford, NY, the beginning of the Erie Canal.  By the time we arrived, there was no room on the east dock with electricity and water, so we rafted to Legrace.  That night Jim and Sue on Water Dancer III and Bob and Lynn on Legrace came over for drinks and dinner.  We shared our plans for moving through the Erie Canal and expressed relief that the big open waters of the Loop were behind us until we reached Lake Ontario.