Trent Severn Waterway

Today we left our peaceful anchorage and headed for the Big Chute Marine Railway just a few miles up river from where we anchored. We approached the carriage contraption that they load the boats on and they loaded a sailboat on the front and loaded us behind them. The carriage begins moving up the hill, over a street, toward the hill that descends down to the water, even as we are still getting settled on the sling. 20% of our…

Our mission today was to go off the channel a few miles south of the Big Chute Marine Railway to find a remote anchorage for a couple of days. We were successful in finding the perfect spot tucked away in The Lost Channel.It's quiet here except for the occasional fishing boat whizzing past. Last night we watched some otters working and sunning themselves. Watche a hord of mosquitoes decend on our boat and every once in awhile heard loons not too far…

We went through three more locks and tied up for the night along with our friends, Rick and Mary, on the otherKismet (Arcadia). So, in Gamebridge it was "game" night on our boat and that seemed appropriate.The area after Fenelon Falls brought us through some very shallow and weedy water. Also along this patch we were in about 5 miles of canal that was similar to a small gorge with walls of rock on both sides and no room for any…

We left Peterborough for a long half-hour. per lock and that's if it's not busy. We haven't had to wait long to get into the locks since many of the days we've been traveling have been during the week and we think the gas crisis has affected boating somewhat. Also, it is not their busy season until closer to the end of June. During one of our lock throughs today we met a boater who was from the area we were…

Peterborough, Ontario is the largest city we've stayed at since New York City. We've been on the move almost everyday for awhile and decided to stay a couple of days at the City Marina to get caught up on chores. We are still traveling with Rick and Mary on the other Kismet (Arcadia).So, besides doing 7 loads of laundry and visiting the Peterborough Canoe Co., we visited the Peterborough Lift Lock. Construction on this lock started in 1896 and was…

We arrived in Cambellford and docked at a municipal wall right down down right next to a beautiful park.We enjoyed a restful night and went into town on Saturday morning to have breakfast at a local Irish restaurant. We learned what a shalaylie was. Do you know? We ventured on to the local bakery, farmers market and the Chocolate Factory. What a way to spend a Saturday morning.479 miles of adventure to go.  

The Trent Severn Waterway is a short cut through Canada that goes from Lake Ontario about 80 miles east of Toronto to Severn on the Georgian Bay. It has 44 unique locking experiences and is 240 miles long.We left Trenton for a 9-hour, 31-mile, 12-lock day with our friends, Rick and Mary on the other Kismet. It was a mostly uneventful day except for the cable, that we were attached to in the lock, broke and we had to scramble…

Our next destination was to head to Trenton, a 38-mile run through beautiful waters with small cottages, large farms on hills off the water's edge. At times cautious navigation was required because of shallow waters and narrow channels. Overall a very pleasant day was had to reach this active town. Trenton is the beginning of the Trent Severn Waterway. We stayed at the very small, however very well managed, Trenton Marina.So, now that we are in Canada we have to…

We left Oswego with a flotilla of vessels at 7 a.m. Wednesday early morning and to our delight we had no wind and glass like water conditions for our 65-mile trek (40 of it across the open waters of Lake Ontario. It was a wonderful crossing and we are so happy to be back in water that is clear and clean.We spent our first dockage in Picton, Canada. Picton is a small town with a tiny marina at an end…