Hey Y'all Karen and I just went through the Panama canal. This is the lady from NZ. and just finished a circle of the Atlantic ocean and are heading home. We were rafted up with this vessel through the chambers 2 by 2.

Here are a few photos of the locks as we were transiting through the first 3. The first 3 locks on the Gatun side are all in one with 3 chambers, each chamber raises your boat 28 feet. The lake is 84 ft. above sea level. The lines from the boats are put on a bollard on top of the wall and all the line handlers do is keep the slack out and the boats in the center of the chamber. Really easy.

Here we are getting locked into the first lock and the rest are just the same so I'll just show more photos.

This is what it looks like from the bottom going from one chamber to the next. You can see the line handlers walking our lines from one to the next.

Now there are a lot more photos of the crossing but this blog will not let me put them where I want them so if it seems a little screwy it's not my fault. We had a good time and spent the night in lake Gatun. I'm going to close out now because the photos are getting totally out of control. Tomorrow we have to go to town so it will be a couple of days before I get back.
See Y'all Down the Road.
Mike & Karen