Month: August 2018

Friday, August 16; Day 85: Leaving Ottawa and its associated locks behind , we head up the Rideau River from Long Island locks for the stretch to Burritts Rapids, on a grey and blustery day, and are, not surprisingly, pretty much alone on the water. This is the northern portion of the canal, which is new to us, but we still find the nature of the Rideau familiar and it feels good to be back. We’re on the home run to Kingston over the next two weeks.

We stop for 2 nights at Burritts Rapids, a green and pleasant lock, where we wait for some better weather and do the usual lolligagging.

Continue reading “Home Run”

Wednesday August 08, Day 76: After the thunderstorms we are ready to head out from our little marina hideout on the Ottawa River to the luxury Chateau Montebello, and are faced with a wall of fog, which turns to mist…so off we go. Of course, the mist turns into fog again, and then drizzle, but there’s little traffic out there.

Continue reading “Bonjour and Good Night”

…but it helps. As well as Environment Canada Marine Forecasts, and, when you’re online and mobile, weather apps and Weather Network. And we used them constantly before and after leaving Trois Rivieres: Lake St-Pierre beckoned, and we didn’t want to cross that body of water at the wrong time.

We left Marina Trois Rivieres on a fine morning – Sunday, July 29, Day 66 – and had a fine crossing of the lake, disturbed only by another pincer movement of two giant cargo ships, coming from opposite directions, and passing each other with us – and a small sailboat – in the middle of their huge wakes.

Continue reading “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows…”