{"id":231,"date":"2022-09-05T00:21:51","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T00:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.182\/findingneverland\/?p=231"},"modified":"2022-09-05T00:29:22","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T00:29:22","slug":"hello-lake-erie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/findingneverland.us\/index.php\/2022\/09\/05\/hello-lake-erie\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello Lake Erie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hi friends and family!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today started at first light, as we were shooting for a rather optimistic target for mileage. We cast off and started the last little bit of the Erie Canal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Some morning walkers along the canal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Things were going well until we reached Buffalo. We found that Black Rock Lock that bypasses the very strong Niagra River current doesn\u2019t start operating until 11:00am on weekends. This caused a huge headache. We didn\u2019t have any time to spare, and we sure didn\u2019t feel like tying up to the wall outside the lock to wait for two hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, we started down the Niagra against the current , doing pretty well for a bit. We then started hitting a more formidable current, slowing our progress to just 1 knot. Then, if you can believe it, we started going backwards! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, we turned Neverland around and picked up the swift current and quickly jumped to 10 knots! Neverland will only do 6 knots so that certainly explained not going anywhere!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our nav app showing 10 knots when we turned around <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

So we went back and waited for the lock, which wasn\u2019t that long after all the time we spent on our little circus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Houston in Black Rock lock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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We locked through with the Miss Buffalo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Once locked through, we went under the International Bridge (a cool swing bridge) and proceeded to Erie Basin Marina for some much needed diesel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fueled up, we set out across Lake Erie on a raw, overcast day. We had 2 foot waves and a good wind behind us, so we were making good time, although not nearly fast enough to make our target of North East Marina. We decided to head for Dunkirk, NY instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So long Buffalo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Lake Erie decided to show us her teeth later in the afternoon, handing us 4-5 foot waves. Houston and I were both very happy when we finally got docked up at the pier in Dunkirk and stepped on dry land!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We will make the short trip to North East in the morning. Hoping for calmer seas!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our home for the night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi friends and family! Today started at first light, as we were shooting for a rather optimistic target for mileage. We cast off and started the last little bit of the Erie Canal. Things were going well until we reached Buffalo. We found that Black Rock Lock that bypasses the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":244,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dailyupdate"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/findingneverland.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/img_4948-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/findingneverland.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/findingneverland.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/findingneverland.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findingneverland.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findingneverland.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/findingneverland.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246,"href":"https:\/\/findingneverland.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions\/246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findingneverland.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/findingneverland.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findingneverland.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findingneverland.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}