The lock is 41 feet wide and 250 feet long. Anything that will fit is allowed to enter. Fishing boats, trawlers, tugboats, a lot of fancy yachts, said Dan Tend zick, the county's director of Bridges, Structures and Waterways. It's a great shortcut from Shinnecock to Peconic Bay. Not just boats use the canal.
Seals love it.
He got out his binoculars and saw it was a swimming deer. He locked her through, as they say in the business. I closed the gates, Carney said. She headed for Shinnecock.