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| Tender 5 is a classic New York State Canal boat. |
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| On Fort Edward's Wall. |
I've been lax in my nomenclature when discussing town walls. Since we've enjoyed many of them in the last month I want to set the record straight.
In 1911 New York budgeted $20M to build 56 terminals along the canals. The terminals are a public space which connect the surrounding community to the canal. Terminals facilitated commerce by providing an area where barges could land and cargo could be loaded and unloaded. Today most terminals have been converted into parks and offer overnight moorage to pleasure craft.
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| The terminals (town walls) are high which makes getting on and off Nellie a challenge (not that we're complaining). |
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| 38 miles from Mechanicsville, NY to Fort Edward, NY. |
Navigating in the canal is usually a no brainier: east or west; north or south. While traveling north today we came to a three way intersection. Hmm, don't see many of those. Anyway we chose to go right and into Lock 7. The doors closed and we waited for the chamber to flood. The lock master appeared above us and asked, "Where are you going?" "Fort Edward," Bicki said. "You should have picked the middle fork then," was his reply. He re-opened the lock door and chagrined Nellie backed out.
Now that we found it, Nellie is safely tied to the Fort Edward terminal. DBH
