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Sharing stories with family and friends from the deck of Jack Tar as we explore the Hudson River, the Erie Canal, the beautiful 1,000 Islands, the Trent-Severn, Rideau Canals, and Georgian Bay. Then, as we return through Ottawa and Montreal, down Lake Champlain, back to the Hudson River.
Follow us for five months along 3,077 miles and 173 locks. There will be 88 on the Trent Severn up and back, including two hydraulic lift locks and one marine railway; 46 on the Rideau Canal up to Ottawa; 8 on the Oswego Canal; the first 20 – a third of the way – on the Erie Canal; and 11 on the Champlain Canal.
The red line is our planned route up to Mackinaw City, and the blue line is our return route through Ottawa, Montreal, and down through Lake Champlain and the Champlain Canal.
Logbook
Read our latest trip reports and view our routes.
Fri Sept 18: Shelburne VT to Burlington VT
Link to today’s route: https://share.nebo.global/voyage/5e052592-ae36-4b0d-b8f0-1625add202fb We had our maintenance taken care of in Shelburne and then back tracked about half an hour to Burlington. The wind was fierce so we were glad for the short…
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Thurs Sept 17: Rouses Point NY to Shelburne VT
Link to today’s route: https://share.nebo.global/voyage/cc2b7a88-1f5c-4040-914e-a9ff476e45c4 The water was glassy smooth this morning as we left the Richelieu River and started down Lake Champlain with Vermont to the east where the Green Mountains were just in…
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Tues Sept 15: Saint Oars QC to Chambly QC
Link to today’s route: https://share.nebo.global/voyage/46e49691-0688-4666-9c6f-5fc0a9f98e21 We woke up to thick fog but it soon burned off and turned into a cool sunny morning. Peter returned to the café and pâtisserie at Ecluse No. 10 for…
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Wed Sept 16: Chambly QC to Rouses Point NY (Locks 1-9 on the Chambly Canal)
Link to today’s route: https://share.nehttps://share.nebo.global/voyage/da56bf4d-c708-403a-89a2-3b675a7f2456bo.global/voyage/da56bf4d-c708-403a-89a2-3b675a7f2456 A Parks Canada staffer came just before 9:00 AM to tell us what to expect for the flight of eight locks we were about to ascend on the Chambly Canal. …
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Mon Sept 14: Montréal to Saint Ours (St Ours Lock)
Link to today’s route: https://share.nebo.global/voyage/8e116159-10e7-4e58-aadf-5cf674197735 We got a relatively early start because we were anticipating seven to eight hours to Saint Ours lock. We had to brave the current again in reverse. It was a…
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Sun Sept 13: Montréal
We spent the day walking through Vieux-Montréal to Notre-Dame Basilica and back to Le Vieux-Port de Montréal. It’s an historic, European-style neighborhood with 17th-19th century architecture and coblestone streets. We made a few stops to…
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Wed Sept 9-11: Carillon to Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue (Sainte Anne Lock)
Link to today’s route: https://share.nebo.global/voyage/14eaef54-4dd3-4e17-bcb2-1f736a04711e We got an early start on a chilly overcast morning in the hopes of beating the wind and thunderstorms predicted in the afternoon. As we left Carillon, we saw the…
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Sat Sept 12: Sainte- Anne-de-Bellvue to Montreal (St Catherine & St Lambert Locks)
Link to today’s route: https://share.nebo.global/voyage/5eebfef3-467e-45fb-b522-a295e98ba0fc Montreal and Saint Joseph’s Basilica on Mount Royal came into view pretty quickly after we left Sainte Anne. We left the Ottawa River and joined the Saint Lawrence River along…
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Tues Sept 8: Montebello to Carillon Lock
Link to today’s route: https://share.nebo.global/voyage/6c3be010-adbe-4896-8674-8444e2daee28 We had glassy, cool water for three hours down the Ottawa River today, and just one lock at the end, which we went through and where we spent the night.…
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Mon Sept 7: Gatineau to Montebello
Link to today’s route: https://share.nebo.global/voyage/fac21c64-230e-42cd-97cb-bb65511e17c2 We traveled east on the Ottawa River for three hours. Along this stretch, the river is the border between Quebec to the north and Ontario to the south. There was…
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Sun Sept 6: Ottawa to Gatineau (Marine de Hull)
Link to today’s route: https://share.nebo.global/voyage/58ab05ce-e626-49b1-b88a-646c40f3389e We finished the last eight locks on the Rideau Canal all in one flight in Ottawa. We were told the night before that a couple of other boats were locking down…
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Sat Sept 5: Ottawa
We walked back downtown to visit the ByWard Market, Ottawa’s oldest and largest market district with open-air businesses, fresh produce stalls, flowers, crafts, local artisans, and restaurants.
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Friday Sept 4: Ottawa
We spent the day being tourists in Ottawa, starting by walking up toward Parliament Hill. We first stopped at bronze statues of “The Famous Five,” prominent Canadian suffragists. The statues were especially poignant just two…
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Thurs Sept 3: Hurst Marina to Ottawa (R16-9)
Link to today’s route: https://share.nebo.global/voyage/575c9f29-5040-4828-9d47-19940aa93122 Now that we’re only about ten miles from Ottawa there have been lots of upscale houses along the shore all pretty much on top of each other. At the first…
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Wed Sept 2: Burritts Rapids to Hurst Marina, Manotick ON (R17)
Link to today’s route: https://share.nebo.global/voyage/d8f9ce18-9f6c-4f39-a267-082d76d24155 Thankfully, we only had one lock to do today, where we had spent the night. The river wound around between open wetlands and then narrower areas with a lot of…
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Tues Sept 1: Poonamalie to Burritts Rapids (R32-17)
Link to today’s route: https://share.nebo.global/voyage/51c99fa6-6234-498f-891e-23f4a4a19e52 We thought today was going to be a wash out because rain was predicted for most of the day, but it turned out to be a beautiful, sunny, breezy day…
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Mon Aug 31: Chaffey’s Lock to Poonamalie Lock (R37-35)
Note to my subscribers: I have been making entries for this blog every day but only in the past week or so have I had good enough service to upload pics and publish the entries. …
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Sat & Sun Aug 29 & 30: Upper Brewers Lock to Chaffey’s Lock (R42-37)
Link to today’s route: https://share.nebo.global/voyage/5f01d8d2-84c2-4e8d-b816-0a88e0791c43 We had an hour and a half of absolutely beautiful cruising this morning with the river taking us between lakes. Some of the lakes are natural but many are flooded…
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Fri August 28: Kingston to Upper Brewers Lock (R49-43)
Link to today’s route: https://share.nebo.global/voyage/1e5f051e-a672-4249-9218-3c8e0060eb5f We successfully got under the east bridge span with a foot or two to spare. It was still nerve wracking, it looks like a lot less when you’re approaching. We…
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Wed & Thurs Aug 26 & 27: Whitlow Point to Kingston
Link to today’s route: https://share.nebo.global/voyage/4880e7e8-f792-4c75-bf61-e9612dc571ba We’re continuing to see the first signs of autumn in the cooler temperatures and a few trees are changing color. We had to slow down to wait for a couple…
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Tues Aug 25: Trenton to Whitlow Point anchorage
Link to today’s route: https://share.nebo.global/voyage/56cb83c1-c934-4abf-86fd-402754cf2a9f The day started off clear and windy but quickly turned overcast. We’re definitely feeling the weather turn to autumn. We are still retracing our route today through the Bay of…
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Fri-Mon Aug 21-24: Percy’s Reach to Trenton (T8-1)
Link to today’s route: https://share.nebo.global/voyage/62419cb1-5cdb-4779-a874-c49e2922f372 It was another easy stretch to end our time on the Trent Severn Waterway. We had the locks to ourselves except for a pontoon boat in the last two. It…
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Tues-Thurs Aug 18-20: Campbellford to Percy’s Reach Lock (T12-9)
Link to today’s route: https://share.nebo.global/voyage/b2cde34a-3d04-4e8b-ad1b-415ea86ce6f0 Peter walked to the bakery in the morning to get some butter tarts and croissants. These are some of the houses and building he saw a long the way. A…
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Mon Aug 17: Rice Lake to Campbellford (lock T18-13)
link to today’s route: https://share.nebo.global/voyage/dbbe619b-039e-4c1e-aa49-c0a2290e47cd We had an hour to the first lock in Hastings. We waited for a few minutes on the blue line for the lock to open and then a Ranger Tug…
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Sun Aug 16: Peterborough to Rice Lake anchorage (lock T19)
Link to today’s route: https://share.nebo.global/voyage/b3051204-5515-4ea5-8d56-c68892ae6692 We took our time leaving Peterborough this morning since we only had one lock to do which was just ten minutes across from the marina on Little Lake. It was…
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Sat Aug 15: Lakefield to Peterborough (T26-20)
Link to today’s route: https://share.nebo.global/voyage/17da7610-9a4d-4a7b-bcc4-30847b21ee82 We left Lakefield right at 9:00 AM again when the lock opened. It was another beautiful sunny morning but not too hot which was very nice considering we had to…
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Fri Aug 14: Buckhorn to Lakefield (T31-27)
Link to today’s route: https://share.nebo.global/voyage/4131b6d6-3210-41e9-ab43-dbac850206cf We were ready to go through the lock at Buckhorn when it opened at 9:00 AM. Only one other boat locked through with us but there were seven or eight…
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Thurs Aug 13: Kirkfield to Buckhorn (locks T35-32)
Link to today’s route: https://share.nebo.global/voyage/6a8a4976-c07a-4bb8-9f96-225e3886218a It was foggy early this morning, but it soon burned off in the sunshine to reveal a silver light. We went through several narrow canals which then opened into lakes. …
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Wed Aug 12: Orillia to Kirkfield (locks T41-36)
Link to today’s route: https://share.nebo.global/voyage/03a9d813-5866-406b-a23d-6cd65282e218 A slightly overcast day kept it a nice cool 70° on the water as we crossed Lake Simcoe and onto a series of five locks in four miles. We thought…
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Mon & Tues Aug 10 & 11: Sparrow Lake to Orillia (lock T42)
Link to today’s route: https://share.nebo.global/voyage/aec767cf-3ba9-4527-b0d7-7bc6638202a8 We reached the Couchiching lock about an hour after we left the marina. The timing was perfect as two other boats were coming out when we arrived. Another trawler locked…
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