June 13, 2015

The Lake Ontario crossing went very well. We left Oswego, NY at 2200 as planned. Shawn and Leanne followed aboard Suenos. The conditions were forecast to be light winds and calm seas and everything was as predicted. We did encounter a bit of fog but nothing too serious and with the radar we were okay. Shawn and Leanne headed towards Coburg about half way across the lake and we continued to Prinyer's Point. We then continued on to Belleville, arriving at the Bay of Quinte Yacht Club at 1100. A great crossing!

Our first sunrise back in Canada.

A herb garden for visiting boats.

The boating community is certainly small. One of HYC's former members now boats out of BQYC and when he heard a boat from Barrie was visiting, well he had to check it out. It was none other than . . .

Jorge and Maurice Pelletier!

 

We enjoyed drinks and memories of his time at HYC.

BQYC.

 

BQYC had courtesy bikes which Jorge and I helped ourselves to and toured around Belleville. We met so many nice boaters here and were enjoying ourselves so much we stayed 3 nights!

 

City Hall.

We had lunch here.

 

June 17, 2015

 

Time to leave Belleville and we did so at 0835. We arrived in Trenton and started the Trent-Severn Waterway around 1100.

Welcome sign to the TSW.

We weren't the only ones enjoying the waterway.

 

We locked through stopping just before Lock 7. The locks were on reduced time schedules, not yet summer hours, so the going was slow. They were only working 1000 to 1600 and you had to be at the lock by 1530 in order to make the last lock. We were 10 minutes late so had to wait until the next morning.

 

June 18, 2015

 

Of course the lockmaster took the boats at the top of the lock first so it was more like 1100 before we had locked through the first one! We were already behind the 8 ball. We decided to stop in Campbellford just before Lock 13 as we anticipated not being able to lock through. We chatted with the couple aboard Duchess of Chaos (a trawler) who we had seen off and on since Castleton-on-Hudson. They have five adopted children onboard and two dogs . . . you know where the name of their boat came from! Lovely people from Kentucky who are doing "the loop".

 

Tomorrow the locks start on summer hours and we are hoping to make it to Peterborough for noonhour on Saturday. Our daughter Jodi and her boyfriend are meeting us there to experience the lift lock.