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My first overnight passage. Sean was cautious (as he should be) to see how I would handle a night watch by myself. I'm pleased to say I did fine. In fact I grew to really enjoy the night watches as I got to use the radar to look for ships and obstructions. The Steiner binoculars were indespensible to help spot other sailing yachts with their dim tricolor lights.

We attempted to find fuel this morning and spent until 11:00 before we gave up and headed over to queue up to enter the Lock. With about 25 other yachts and big freighters we waited about an hour before we were let in to the lock. Interesting to raft up with all sorts of boats making the transit. My expectation was the water level difference would be huge but it's only about 30 cm or so!