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Lexington - Captain Bob: Forget Me Not



We are on the way this morning at 7:30. Ann and I went with Forget Me Not, another boat in the Arc, to act as line handlers. When boats enter a lock then the water goes either up or down depending on the lock. As this happens the line handlers have to take in or let out line to keep the boat in the center of the lock. When a boat first enters a lock, workers on the canal toss light line with a "monkey fist", a ball of line around a weight, to line handlers on the boat. The light line is tied to the heavy lines on the boat and pulled to a bullard, a large metal piece to tie to. The on land canal line handlers move the lines along the canal as each boat moves from lock to lock and reattach the lines to new bullards. Yesterday we did the first set of locks going up. We all tied to a hugh mooring, a large floating unit that is anchored to the bottom. Two boats tied on each side of the mooring and then the other boats tied to the first, called rafted up. We all spent the night and started out again this morning.
Below is a photo big ship and a tug boat.


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