Day 24 - August 13th

Today is our last day of locking on the Erie and Oswego Canal System. Despite the things we had heard, we found it to a great experience. We will miss the fact that you can leave your engines running, four 45 foot boats can fit on one wall, no embuttments and smooth filling and lowering. We made the trip from Phoenix to Oswego in 3 hours and the three diesel boats all filled up at Oswego Marina then we all moved over to the town wall for the night, $20 flat rate and it had hydro. Since the day ended early Jim, Bob and Bryan walked into town to pick up Bob's parts at NAPA and then visited the Fire Museum to see the old engines, it wasn't open but since it is run by retirees they were invited inside for a private tour. Sinced the only meal wew haven't tried this trip was Chinese we headed over to the buffet house for dinner. It was decided that the weather was looking pretty good for tomorrow we would wake at 5:00 and try to head out across the lake for 6:00am