We woke up to another beautiful day. I had a conference call this morning with the boys at Quadco and that took until about lunchtime. All of the other four boats that came to join us in the anchorage last night headed for the next lock. These two locks on the Ohio are very old and are being replaced, but it will be another 2-3 years before the project is completed. The locks are so old that they constantly break down and the tows are lined up 10-15 deep in both directions. Pleasure craft are usually locked through after three locks of waiting. Yesterdays lock took us about 6 hours to get through and today we waited about three hours. I didn't have high expectations and was not disappointed with our passage. Better to have low expectations and be pleasantly surprised. We met up with Chris and Amy on Imagine This and they tied off to us at lock 52 until we were called in. After the lock it is a short run up to the new Paducah town dock and we are tied up there but they supposedly are full and do not have room for us. We will see because there will not be another lockage of pleasure craft until after dark and I'm not even sure if there will be any pleasure craft coming here. Imagine This has offered to let us raft if they do show up. Right now we have filled up with water and are doing laundry and enjoying the AC. It's hot again today, maybe we left Canada too soon!
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| Here is our lockage of 5 boats today. The locks are all so old and rough you do not want to tie to the wall or in reality the round ugly rusted steel cassions |
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| That's the lockmaster in the white shirt. Behind that concrete wall is the hydraulics to operate the lock. Its all pretty tired |
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| Getting dark out. This is inside the lock waiting for the chamber to fill |
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