You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows…

…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.

Weather or not apps are highly valuable, though not always accurate

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.

A pincer movement on Lac St-Pierre
But it was still a fine morning, even against a 1 1/2 knot current

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