Stony Lake provided us with a wonderful weekend: 1½ days of warm sunshine allowing for walks around the grounds of the resort and a great dinghy ride and then a Sunday of rain and wind, encouraging us to stay inside, to read the Toronto Star offered to us by a pair of women boaters docked […]
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From Stony Lake to Bobcaygeon
Peterbourgh to Stony Lake
First and foremost, we made it through the BIG lift lock at Peterbourgh!! After all the anticipation and nervousness, it was actually quite an easy and comfortable lock… as locks go! This one is different because instead of a single lock chamber filling with water (or emptying water out), the lock has two chambers, one […]
Traveling the Trent Severn Waterway I
We’ve figured out how to upload pix with a less than stellar internet connection but haven’t solved the video issues….yet! The pictures in this hot-linked Flickr set entitled Trent Severn Waterway 1 highlight more sights along the first segment of the Trent Severn Waterway… through lock 19 of 45! Most of the journey thus far has […]
Living the Dream!!
“You are really ‘Living the dream…’” has been the universal response when we tell Canadians we meet what we are doing, where we’ve been, and where we are going. And they are absolutely right!! After a delightfully smooth and uneventful crossing of Lake Ontario from Oswego NY to Kingston, ON, we dutifully checked in with […]
Central NY Vacation
So where do boats and boaters go to vacation?? Wel-l-l, different places, we suppose, but Sojourner always seems to return to the same place: Ess-Kay Yards in Brewerton, NY, on the Erie Canal/Oneida River, just off the west end of Lake Oneida. Syracuse and the very good friends who live there are close by so […]
The Erie Canal 2012!
Next stop: the Erie Canal!! We made that left turn after the federal lock at Troy and within ½ hour, pulled onto the “free” docks at Waterford, the starting point for the famous Erie Canal. [The city docks are no longer absolutely free, but we were most happy to pay the $10.00/night now required for […]
Cruising the Magnificent Hudson
Cruising the Hudson River offers a new adventure every time we do it! From first entering the river by hanging the left just after the Statue of Liberty in the middle of NYC Harbor until making another left some 135 miles north, after the federal lock in Troy, NY to enter the Erie Canal, this […]
Big and Bigger Water: DE Bay & The Atlantic to NYC
After several days in Delaware City, the winds died down, and we had a great day to cruise the length of Delaware Bay: sunny, warm and a slight northern breeze at our back. We feared a sudden storm or fog bank as we had experienced on earlier trips [see: July 24 2009 -and- pix], but […]
Days and Days in Delaware City
Several of our cruising friends recommended stopping at Delaware City DE, located near the east end of the C&D Canal and next to two major shipping channels at the north end of Delaware Bay. Such a stop makes good sense as it shortens the trip down DE Bay to Cape May, NJ by an hour […]
The Chesapeake Bay Reprise
Cruising through VA offered enjoyable familiar sights and remembered runs to catch bridges with strange (and inconvenient) opening times. Passing through the first of hundreds of locks on this trip (at Great Bridge) took us on to the industrial outskirts of Norfolk… and after a night at Ocean Marine, very nice (new to us) marina […]
