Time lapse trip through the Erie Canal

Fantastic Video

No, we docked at night.

Awesome video. Its exactly what I've always wanted to see. Maybe someday I'll be able to take a trip like that. Nice.

It was an interesting trip, I'm glad you enjoyed the video.

GREAT VIDEO!!!! Thx for sharing it.

I don't recognize much west of Utica, but I enjoyed watching the clouds as you crossed Oneida Lake. Interesting how many times you lock down going west. Great video.

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This was absolutely fascinating!

very cool!

too fast 

Awesome video!

Great video on an icon of engineering. Thanks for sharing.

I lived in Brighton, just outside of Rochester - use to run the canal trail btwn Brighton and Pittsford NY. Was cool seeing boats going through the lock on that stretch of the canal. Thanks for sharing

Do you pay a fee to go through the locks?

I always wondered what it would be like to traverse the Erie Canal. The nuns (near Pittsburgh) taught us the Erie Canal song. Thanks for posting this.

While in the locks do you shut your engines off or let them idle? Is either mandatory?

Thanks for sharing this video Roger. We're planning to go from Lake Champlain to Rochester thru the Erie Canal and then cross Lake Ontario to the 1000 Islands next season and I'm trying to estimate the time it will take us at trawler speed and traveling an average of 4 hours a day. Seeing that Jubilee is a trawler, was your average speed around 7 knots? Cheers!

Loved this! Brought back so many memories. We travelled with our sailboat (removed mast in Erie Canal) from Grosse Point, MI to Ft Myers, FL in 1974. Went through the Welland Canal from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario, then through the Erie Canal (from Oswego) to the Hudson River. Just as beautiful as I recall. Do you know if there is a "drive the Erie Canal" roadway to retrace that route?

I like watching this kind of stuff because I work for the Erie Canal Corporation.

If you cleaned your damn lens off, you might have had a good video.

Thank you, your video filled in some much needed intel. Planning this trip for late June 2021 (if the plague permits) although journey's end will be in Clayton.

Too fast to enjoy.

For navigation we had paper charts as well as GPS electronic nav systems.

The chronically wet lens ruined nearly half of this. By the way, for those reading this, they left the Erie Canal only about halfway through and went north through an entirely different canal- the Oswego Canal. So this video should be called Time Lapse trip through Part of Erie and All of Oswego Canal. (For the record there is also the Cayuga -Seneca Canal and the Champlain Canal)

Who else came here just because of the Suez Canal incident?

This was fantastic. I live in Manhattan, have a place outside of Syracuse by the old part of the canal, and a summer house in Wolfe Island, Ontario near Wellesley Island. But I never sailed the canal. This was familiar and not familiar at the same time.

Anyone 2022 ?

I wish I could take this trip. As a New Yorker I’m just learning about all of this stuff about the state. I’m ready to explore it and get away from the city.

How much do they charge for canal access and/or lock access? What's the canal access for boats ramps along the journey look like?

Laissez-faire capitalism’s first great feat!

Millions were spent to enlarge the Erie Canal into what was named Barge Canal. However, rail shipping was becoming more popular and trucks took over in a few years as highways were improved. By the 1950's petroleum was the big item shipped by barge. A few years ago, the Genesee Brewing Co. of Rochester shipped some new tanks by barge. They just about cleared the bridges.