Ilion, NY

We left Canajoharie, NY and headed to Ilion, NY we have now gone through 55 locks and traveled over 4500 miles on the waterways. At lock 15 we met Chris the lock-master who welcomed us to his lock, what a nice guy. He loaned his car to a boater docked overnight at his lock who needed to have a prescription filled. We have met so many kind and generous people along the way.


We stopped for fuel at the Red Neck Boat Club. It was hit by the flood of 2006.

The water level went up 22 feet. The lighthouse next to Sue was under water except for the tip

This is not a lock up ahead but “guard gates” that act like a dam to stop water flow in case of flooding.

Lock 17 on the Erie Canal has a “guillotine” door, it is the only lock of it’s type in America.

In lock 17 you hook a line from you boat amidships to the wire that runs down the lock wall.

It’s about time the Captain did some deck work.

We plan to visit the Remington museum tomorrow, the sign announcing the museum has a flag for each branch of service on it along with a POW flag.

I met a Pearl Harbor survivor in the park he saw my NAVY shirt and wanted to shake my hand. He was showing me his license plate that says “Pearl Harbor Survivor” he’s 88 and had some great war stories.

We were the only boat docked in the whole marina.

Lisa is trying to tell me it’s time to go back to the boat, “it’s too hot out here”

We visited the Remington factory and had a tour of manufacturing. Very interesting. These 16th century guns were given to Remington in 1870 by a delegation from China.

This tug was from the museum on Lake Champlain, VT. It pulled in for fuel today. I don't know why it's so far down the Erie Canal.