August 3

We tried to make an early start to avoid the heat but didn’t get on the water until about 8:30 at the Admiral’s Marina headed north.  Now we approached the locks from downstream and were lifted each time.  We quickly had found the routine of holding onto the hanging line on the wall and holding ourselves off the wall with our boat hook.  The locks were a great excuse to rest.  After another hot five or six hours on the water we tied up at the dock at Schuyler’s Yacht Basin where we were told we could leave it overnight. The kind owner, Phil Dean, offered to drive me down to pick up the car.   We parked it in a new site in back of the Dean’s house where I was able to receive email by using their wireless signal. But after getting a return message saying my email was undeliverable several times I decided that sending any replies was hopeless. I realized that we were not going to be able to really connect to cyberworld while camping in the car.  I had not brought my cable to hook up through my cell phone. But even cell phone coverage in eastern New York was sketchy at best. I went to bed early so we could get an early start before it got too hot.