Steve Boerner, CSNY board member and editor of Bottoming Out, has provided these excellent photos of the Bicentennial flotilla at points along the first leg of the voyage. See the projected schedule below.

Below, tug Grasso sails past an access point west of Bear Ridge Road, south of Pendleton.

Seneca Chief and Churchill pass Feigle Road Bridge, west/south of Lockport.

The next two show the throngs of well-wishers in Lockport;

note Seneca Chief and Churchill appearing just below the bridge in the distance.

And the next two show the gathering around locks 34 and 35 in Lockport.

Adapting here from Stone’s narrative, Lockport features a “stupendous succession of locks, and the chasm which has been cut through the mountain, is one of the most interesting places on the route, if not in the World, and presents one of the most striking evidences of human power and enterprise which has hitherto been witnessed. A double set of locks, whose workmanship will vie with the most splendid monuments of antiquity, rise majestically, one after the other, to the height of sixty-three feet: the surplus water is conducted around them, and furnishes some of the finest mill-seats imaginable.”

And please, if you are farther east on the Canal or have friends there, please invite them to be correspondents, to take photos of the flotilla, and to send them along to Dispatches. Check the schedule above for timings.

Many thanks to Steve for use of these images. Also, please consider becoming a member of CSNY.