Three Down - Four To Go!





Duane and I



Duane and I at Iroquois Lock



Eisenhower and Snell Locks as the lock closes.


 

Eisenhower and Snell Locks as the doors opened. 


The crew was up early, we all had a bad night. The mosquitoes somehow got into the cabin, buzzing our ears half the night.  This was a first for Yumsuch. 
Our first lock, Iroquois Lock is 12 miles east of Prescott/Ogdensburg is the first lock of the seven Seaway locks was 1/2 a mile away. We arrived at 7:35 and set to go thru at 8:00am.  This was my first experience with locks, the drop range was only 6 inches.  The drop was over before I knew it! 
Then we sailed 30 miles to Eisenhower and Snell locks. The two American locks facilitate travel around the Long Sault Rapids.The drop range 38ft to 42 ft.

We anchored at St.Regis Island for the night.  Thank God for no mosquitoes! 

The crew is up and ready to go Salaberry-de-Valleyfield.  Salaberry-de-Valleyfield is just east of Coteau Landing.

Roy's comments:  Today was a cloudy day, after a rainy night, and we had the usual of 8-10 knots from astern.  Once at the Eisenhower lock, we motored to Snell, 3 miles and then to our anchorage, another 3 miles.  I told the lock master, at the Eisenhower lock, that we only had a 4 knot motoring speed.  He said they would probably lock the powerboats through, at Snell, and get us by ourselves, but they waited for us.  The powerboats jumped on plane to the next lock, big mistake on their part.  It was over 90 with no wind in the locks.  We motored at 4 knots drawing 26 amps from the batteries.  After the two locks, I fired up the generator.  With the increased voltage, we motored at 10 knots and only drew around 13 amps.  It was a good first test.  Once at the anchorage, we did not bother charging up the engine bank.  We figured we would be at marinas from now on.  I need to have WiFi for work.  The sun had come out in the afternoon, so our house bank was fully charged.