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Erie Canal Trip - July and August 2001

Here are a few of the pictures taken on our trip in 2001 to the Erie Canal from our slip at Solomons, Maryland, on the Chesapeake Bay. We departed on July 6 and returned on August 4, 2001. The route lead us up Chesapeake Bay, across the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal, down the Delaware Bay and through the Cape May Canal into the Atlantic Ocean, up the New Jersey coast into the Hudson River, and then into the Erie Canal - and return.
Getting underway July 6, 2001
Getting underway from Solomons, Maryland
Cruise ship in Atlantic Ocean outside NYC
Cruise ship leaving New York Harbor
First lock for Sanderling's crew at Federal Lock, Troy, NY
First lock - Federal Lock above Troy, New York, with First Mate at lines
Grand Erie - New York State Canal Commission
Grand Erie in Lock 11, Erie Canal
Sanderling's crew
Sanderling's crew
What a life!
Shuffleboard begins in 5 minutes
Trek boats stop for picnic lunch
Trek boats at Lock 20
Very photogenic
Church at Seneca Falls, New York
18.5 feet mast up
Mast down - clearance is 16.1 feet
First Mate preparing lunch
Lock 17 - east gate opening (only lift gate lock in canal
With Grand Mariner cruise boat behind
Sanderling at Scotia Town Dock
One of these boards are at every lock
Lock 4 information board
Manhattan skyline July 29, 2001
Delaware Bay ferry entering Cape May Canal
A REAL trawler departing Atlantic City, New Jersey
Racing on Delaware Bay southbound
Sunset behind Reedy Island, Delaware Bay
Lift bridge on Spa Creek, Annapolis, Maryland