Tuesday we were up and had the boat ready and running when Lockmaster Mark arrived at the lock. When those big doors opened we took off down the canal with no other boats in sight.. As the day progressed we saw more and more boats heading in the same direction that we were headed, some sailboats and some really big power boats. We made it through 3 locks. To give ourselves a good start for Wednesday we motored across Onideia Lake in the dark. The lake is very shallow and the navigation lights are not all that great. We finally motored into Sylvan beach at 10:15, a very long day. When driving a car you have bright lights and defined roadways, on a boat you have none of that, you depend on your night vision and charts that could have been created 20 years.
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