All set with the locking and mooring passes we proceeded into the first lock and then the second and so on until we cleared the last at 10:00. These lock doors are constructed of wood and operated with hand cranks manned by summer student workers. We have been told to expect a typical single flight locking to take about ½ hour, minimum. Oh yeah, there was a manually operated swing (road) bridge between the 3rd and 4th locks also. After Kingston Mills the waterway consists of small lakes connected by narrow passages, some of the passages give you the feeling you are boating on a stream running through a meadow back in PA. Water depths down to 6’ in places – FLIGHT needs 4’to be floating. The next lock was at Washburn and it was a single flight of 13.5’ – “no worries mate” – FLIGHT’s crew is on to this, ay. Just put the boat’s mid-ship by a cable so Polly can snatch a rope around it and hold her to a cleat, than captain R. turns off the electronics and then shuts down the engine and jumps to the lower deck to snatch a stern line around another cable and standby as the cranks are turned to close gates and then open the tubes to let the water in. Up she comes – look out for that fender dropping into the hole in the lock wall. Gates open – reverse the process and zoom on the next at 5 MPH. Away from Washburn at 12:06 (there was another swing bridge there too) and 1.8 SM later Brewers Mills locks #44 & 43 appear and we decide to stay there above the locks, for the night. It’s a lovely spot with space for 6 boats the size of ours plus there is 30A “hydro” with wash rooms that are open all night.