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KLC Lewis wrote:
"Larry" wrote in message
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"KLC Lewis" wrote in
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Ya, I shot one with a .308 bullet once. :-D


Did it make it any easier to get off?


Na. Got slippery.


But you had somewhere to put the screwdriver!

Cheers
Martin

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"Marty" wrote in message
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KLC Lewis wrote:
"Larry" wrote in message
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"KLC Lewis" wrote in
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Ya, I shot one with a .308 bullet once. :-D


Did it make it any easier to get off?


Na. Got slippery.
But you had somewhere to put the screwdriver!

Cheers
Martin

Lol -- ya got a point there.

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Roger Long wrote:

The weather report is for heavy, steady rain and possible snow for the next
few days. It isn't going to be much fun standing out in this stuff tending
lines as we go through the locks.

Looks like you're stuck just before Lock 19,,

There's been a lot of rain in the last 36 hours, I wonder if the lock is
out of operation until the water lever goes down. Or maybe they don't
operate on weekends at the end of season?

Cheers
Martin

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On Sat, 25 Oct 2008 05:44:03 -0400, "Roger Long"
wrote:

Off to eat breakfast before going out in the soaking rain.

Roger, what is the problem at Lock 19 today (Sunday) ?

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On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 15:18:26 -0400, Marty wrote:

Looks like you're stuck just before Lock 19,,

There's been a lot of rain in the last 36 hours, I wonder if the lock is
out of operation until the water lever goes down. Or maybe they don't
operate on weekends at the end of season?

They operate on weekends but if something goes wrong with the old and
creaky electrical gear there is probably no one around on a Sunday to
fix it.

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Wayne.B wrote:
On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 15:18:26 -0400, Marty wrote:

Looks like you're stuck just before Lock 19,,

There's been a lot of rain in the last 36 hours, I wonder if the lock is
out of operation until the water lever goes down. Or maybe they don't
operate on weekends at the end of season?

They operate on weekends but if something goes wrong with the old and
creaky electrical gear there is probably no one around on a Sunday to
fix it.


Dang Gov'mint,, you know that there's more than enough expertise on that
boat to fix pretty much anything. To bad they wouldn't be allowed to do
just that.

Cheers
Martin

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On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 18:34:01 -0400, Marty wrote:

Wayne.B wrote:
On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 15:18:26 -0400, Marty wrote:

Looks like you're stuck just before Lock 19,,

There's been a lot of rain in the last 36 hours, I wonder if the lock is
out of operation until the water lever goes down. Or maybe they don't
operate on weekends at the end of season?

They operate on weekends but if something goes wrong with the old and
creaky electrical gear there is probably no one around on a Sunday to
fix it.


Dang Gov'mint,, you know that there's more than enough expertise on that
boat to fix pretty much anything. To bad they wouldn't be allowed to do
just that.


Some of that old gear they use on the canal looks like it belongs in a
museum. It was old when I was a kid. We did the reverse trip from
what Roger is doing in the summer of 2000 and were delayed several
times for lock repairs. We also get the same issue with lift bridges
here in Florida from time to time.

They know how to deal with lock equipment problems on the small
Canadian canals. Everything is hand cranked by college kids. :-)

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Wayne.B wrote:
On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 18:34:01 -0400, Marty wrote:

Wayne.B wrote:
On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 15:18:26 -0400, Marty wrote:

Looks like you're stuck just before Lock 19,,

There's been a lot of rain in the last 36 hours, I wonder if the lock is
out of operation until the water lever goes down. Or maybe they don't
operate on weekends at the end of season?
They operate on weekends but if something goes wrong with the old and
creaky electrical gear there is probably no one around on a Sunday to
fix it.

Dang Gov'mint,, you know that there's more than enough expertise on that
boat to fix pretty much anything. To bad they wouldn't be allowed to do
just that.


Some of that old gear they use on the canal looks like it belongs in a
museum. It was old when I was a kid. We did the reverse trip from
what Roger is doing in the summer of 2000 and were delayed several
times for lock repairs. We also get the same issue with lift bridges
here in Florida from time to time.

They know how to deal with lock equipment problems on the small
Canadian canals. Everything is hand cranked by college kids. :-)



Yup, I grew up around the Rideau, lived for a while on the canal withins
sight of the Kingston Mills Locks, and live on a Island just outside of
that canal. Hard to beat good old gears, chains, rods and hand power.

Cheers
Martin

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In article , Wayne.B wrote:
On Sat, 25 Oct 2008 05:44:03 -0400, "Roger Long"
wrote:

Off to eat breakfast before going out in the soaking rain.

Roger, what is the problem at Lock 19 today (Sunday) ?

From here it looks like he had the spot in his jacket pocket and went for a drunken dinghy ride, followed by a walk on the grass.

There's also one oddity in the track, it looks like they got to the lock, and then went back up the canal before proceeding to the lock once more. Looks weird.

Justin.

--
Justin C, by the sea.

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"Wayne.B" wrote

Roger, what is the problem at Lock 19 today (Sunday) ?


We're stuck but good. The heavy rains of Saturday have put this section of
the canal 2 feet above it's normal level and 6" above it's official maximum.
We are just 3" too high to make it under the railroad bridge below you can
see just below the dock.

We spent all of a perfect canal cruising day, bright sun, calm winds, warm,
sitting at the dock watching the level gauge. It went down just 3/8 inch
all day and the came back up half of that. At his rate, it we'll be here for
a few days. Our only hope is that small crews on Sunday prevented them from
opening all the dam gates downstream. We did learn that just two of seven
gates were opened. Hopefully, it is just a labor problem and not aging
infrastructure or downstream flooding considerations.

It was a beautiful place to spend a lazy day but it's going to be a lot less
appealing in tomorrow's weather. The captain and yard rep know the director
of the canal system personally so, if anything can be done, it probably will
be. We'll find out tomorrow.

We did head back up towards Utica late in the day but decided there was too
much debris to make the 16 mile round trip worthwhile and took a cab to a
motel.

The drunken dinghy ride Justin referrs to is just the non-waas SPOT fix
wandering around.

The canal is a great trip (when you can get under the bridges). The early
morning run with dawn breaking and mist rising off the water was worth the
price of admission.

--
Roger Long