We left Longueuil at 8:00. The Seaway website said they would open for easier craft at 9:00. When we got there with no commercial traffic around I phoned the lock master to see if we would be put through at 9:00 as the web had said or would we have a wait. He said he would have to find put. He came back saying the lock would open at 9:30. The lock opened at 9:30 with no explanation as to why not 9:00 as the web said. By the way the web was updated with that information at 7:00 only 2 hours earlier. We got through the St Catherine lock immediately and headed for the CPR bridge. We got through it immediately, explanation below. It was 12:00 and we had done 2 locks. We were going to go to The Royal St Lawrence Y C but decided to catch the 15:00 opening of the Beauharnois locks. We raced at 2400 RPB for 3 hours and got to the lower lock with time to spare. For some reason known only to the Gods thelock ,aster had decided not to follow the schedule but let all the fast motor boats through earlier. I phoned and got no answer. Then just minutes after three down bound boats emerged from the lock. Nothing happened so I phoned again. I was told we would have to wait one and a half hours after the posted time then we could go through. The lock door remained opened for one and a half hours and we were called in. A needless annoyance.
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