After a few days’ stay in Port Trenton, we embarked July 12 on our transit of the historic waterway. The Trent-Severn Waterway has an interesting history in the development of the Canadian frontier. This year marks Canada’s 150th anniversary of Confederation, and fees for the Waterway have been waived. The Waterway, all the facilities involved […]
Archive for July, 2017
Across Lake Ontario
Jul 12th 2017Cruise Log & Georgian Bay & Location
Our “triangle loop” trip last year took us from Oswego across the eastern part of Lake Ontario to Kingston, an easy run of around 42 miles. The route to enter the Trent-Severn Waterway takes a more westerly direction, and is a bit over 70 miles, a full day’s cruise. We had a good start locking […]
Oswego
Jul 10th 2017Cruise Log & Georgian Bay & Location
It’s an easy run from Phoenix to Oswego. Phoenix is lock O-1; we cleared lock O-7 at Oswego and decided to stay put. We arrived on Friday July 7, and planned to stay for a few days waiting out some wind. The hop across Lake Ontario is around 70 miles, so a full day on […]
Brewerton for a bit
Jul 9th 2017Cruise Log & Georgian Bay & Location
We continued on the canal with a stop at Sylvan Beach then across Oneida Lake and arrived in Brewerton on June 24th. We took a slip at Ess Kay Yards for a week. I had removed the injectors and the injector pump at Stansbury and had the pump overhauled and the injectors tested. It ran […]