Before leaving the dock I walked back to the canal and took this picture of Lock #2 (there is no Lock #1, don't ask me why), the last lock on the Erie.
Soon after leaving, we went through the Troy lock on the Hudson, which should be our last one until we return.
Several hours into the trip on the Hudson, we noticed that our boat speed over ground was dropping. It was then we noticed that we were going into a two knot current. I consulted the tide tables and realized that the tide was rising. Part of my inexperience was not realizing that even 140 miles from the Atlantic, we would be subject to tide. It was not a big deal, but another learning experience. The trip took a little longer than planned, but we found the marina and were relieved to find our mast in the boatyard, right where it was supposed to be.
While we were on the Hudson we passed this boat going the other way.
We had hoped to put the mast up today, but the weather has turned bad with lots of rain and wind. Tomorrow looks better.
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Location:Hop-O-Nose Marina, Catskill, NY
Did you go through the Federal Lock? That is lock #1..so they say. You're question just begged a 'Google'.
ReplyDelete"In the early 1900s, when state engineers were planning locations for locks on the Modern Barge Canal, they assumed that the first lock on the Erie Canal would be here in Troy on the Hudson River.
There was one issues that would muddy the waters though, the lock location in Troy was technically in federal waters, and thus under federal jurisdiction. At the time, New Yorkers hoped that because it was under federal control, the lock would be built by the federal government, and thus not at a direct expense to New York State which was already spending over 150 million dollars on canal improvements.
It was not immediately clear that the federal government would enlarge the existing lock here in Troy (there was a smaller lock for use by old Champlain Canal boats). Therefore while designing blueprints, particularly for the locks in Waterford, they started numbering with Lock E2 and not Lock E1, because of the uncertainty of who actually build the lock.
Ultimately the federal government built the lock and completed the necessary dredging in the area. They also retained operations and authority over the lock and thus it was call the Troy Federal Lock and Dam and not Erie Canal Lock 1. This numbering issue confuses boaters to this day. Many ask, if this is Erie Canal Lock 2, where is the first one? Many naturally point to the Troy Federal Lock, and they are right."