June 25, 2017

Well we did it, we started on the Trent-Severn canal system today.

It opened at 9:00AM and of course Jim and I were there at 8:15AM.

Do you think they opened 1 minute early, absolutely not.  We were waiting tied off like we were suppose to do, when a Canadian who knows what to do pulls out in front of us.  That is all right, we just did what they did in the lock and it went pretty smoothly.  About the 8th lock the wind started howling and the waves were not very nice.  We got to lock 8 and they quit.  So we went the rest of the way by ourselves and it was great.  Canadian locks  are far better than US locks.  More consistent, and better maintained.  We

did 12 locks and 27 miles in 8 hours.  We are 1/4 of the way through!! I am afraid that tomorrow we will be catching up with other loopers and a slower progress.  One of the locks we traveled through was 2 locks in one.  By the time we finished it we had gone up 48 feet.  Doesn't sound like much but if you are at the bottom looking up, it is a big deal.  Glad we did it, ready for it to be done.

Tomorrow we hope to do 8 locks and 60 miles.  If you are watching on a map, we are in Campbellford, Ontario.

This is the double lock.
Did 2 of these back to back.
48feet