Friday, July 29, 2011

The adventure is almost completed

This is day 31 of our odyssey and we could not have had a better time. One thing I want to mention before I forget is while going up river up current stay out of the middle. We would loose up to 2.5 kns from the side to the middle. If you can then get out of the Seaway ditch you can generally pick up another .2 to .5 kns. To day we go half way to Cornwall from Valeyfield and will stay at Creg Quay Marina. Tomorrow we will go through the last two locks, the Iroquois only goes up or down 6 inches thus is easy to do and fast.
Saturday night we will be at Crysler Park Marina and Morrisburg. This is really where the adventure started on the 4th of July 24 days ago. There is nothing we would change nothing we would not do over. As a matter of fact we are considering retracing our steps in two years. We would strongly recommend the trip to anyone.
The people we have met have all been going much further. The last couple bought a 40 foot sailboat in Chicago. They left on July 24 and two days ago were already in east Montreal. They are going around Nova Scotia, down to Florida, overt the Panama Canal and then the
South Pacific. It makes our little 24 day adventure seem small. I should say at this time that neither myself nor Trish were tempted to follow them.

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