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From: (no name) (no email)
Date: Mon Jul 02 2007 - 10:49:04 EDT
Weather has held for the past four days, and the humidity has finally left,
but we're told its coming back again on Wednesday. So much for getting away
from Orlando in the Summer.
Trenton: Fraser Park Marina, featuring Craig, is the preferred marina, 30 and
50 amp power available, along with Diesel Gas and Pump out. Diesel was 106.9
What's new in Trenton, not much, Craig has added new colorful pieces of line
to his gallon size stir sticks which he uses to insure he gets the was room
keys back and they have built a new library by the water, with WIFI. Tomasso's is
still the restaurant of choice, the food is quite good, 1/2 a block away from
the marina.
Campbellford: We stay @ Old mill park on the West side. They, (the town) now
run both sides of the canal, the East has 50 amp power and new water lines.
But we prefer the older west side, It has a park, the check in building, the
shower rooms, and the free WiFi connection is closer, it's based out of their
office. Diesel is 97.9 @ both MacMillans and Turners. YES this is the cheapest
fuel on the Trent system, and has been for the last six years. If your into
overnighting on walls, we like just above Lock 13 where it's quiet and safe.
Others will choose above lock 12 which is not as pretty and is noisier, but allows
you to walk to the Ranney Gorge Suspension Bridge. OR, you can tie up to lock
12 for 2 hours do the bridge, shop in town @ the "no frills", do your quick
Internet dump and download, and then spend the night @ the top of 13. We have
not found a restaurant in town other than "capers" that we would go to again.
Peterborough: We have stayed @ the Marina, (now run by the city) 1.50 a foot
+, it's not the same as it was when the old dockmaster was here, it's just a
bunch of kids doing a summer job. There are free concerts here most Wednesday
and Saturday nights. RIGHT NEXT TO THE MARINA until 10:00 PM. Rental cars from
enterprise are available. The main town is a 15 to 20 minute walk, cabs help
with this. Food is available within a blocks walk from the marina. Laundry is
three blocks away. Diesel is 115.9, Gas and pumpout are available.
The Great Loopers boats, about 200 of them, are now moving North through the
system, and will continue to do so for another month or so. We've come across
a few boats with mechanical problems, some working on the repairs and winning,
others without funds or mechanical talent somehow keep pushing on to my
amazement. The system, while not low, shows signs of needing rain, flow rates are
down and where we would normally have seen water flowing over dams there is
barely a trickle to allow for the lock and the evaporation.
The Sixty Some footer:
Soo... here's the scoop on the 6X footer, they came into the system at
Trenton, signed the waver on depth, claiming 5'. And proceeded to hit bottom @
Petersborough just under 90 miles up the canal system. The Trent Severn Waterway
can carry up to 6' in the channel, but they do NOT guarantee 6' of water under
you at all times, you take you chances. Silt Happens. Five foot and a bit, is
more like it for a safe controlling depth, but deeper boats do travel the
system all the time. Well, the 6X footer was actually drawing 5' 8" in depth, not
the 5' that they claimed. And there is nowhere on the Trent Severn that has a
hoist with the capacity to lift them, (if that's what they needed). They
actually should never have tried the system, their only option was the Welland
Canal.
We draw 4'4" and have in other years, hit in the channel HARD once, and soft
a number of times, especially in the area of the Kirkfield lift lock, both
before and after it, in the restricted width channel and rock cut. So the loon
telegraph says that they had prop damage, they sent down a dive and pulled them
sent them in for repair, most likely @ Buckhorn, and had the re installed. No
Good. This is a hell of a lot of work to do for a diver, there props are huge,
they weigh a lot and are an incredible amount of work to pull of and replace,
IF they can do it at all. Well, they need to be hauled out, so they have to
go hundreds of miles back to the states to a lift and marina that can do the
deed. Here's a million dollar boat, run by an, you insert the agitative. And
they are still complaining about the Trent Severn Waterway, and about their
treatment in Canada.
It's Canada Day weekend: July 1st, (like July 4th in the US) but Canadians
Party much harder. We choose NOT to travel on this weekend, but to docksuck. The
same as we would in the US for July 4th weekend. There are way too many low
time boaters out there, and many are not drinking pop as their beverage of
choice. Patti my wife is off to the US in a rental car to pick up our Daughter
from rowing camp, soon there will again be six on the boat for the rest of the
summer. Canada Day provides us with an ethnic food festival at the marina, just
100' from our boat and the Canada day parade on the main street @ 1:00 PM, the
streets are lined with chairs and the parade lasts for over and hour, quite
impressive for a small town. Cooler air is coming down from the north so its
jacket time today. Well today will be our third day, here so like three day old
fish and guests who stay for over three days, we may be overstaying our
welcome, I feel the need to on our way again.
Regards,
Capt. James Clausen, MV Summer School
Cruising the Lake Ontario, Rideau Canal, Trent Severn Canal,
St. Lawrence Seaway, and Georgian Bay, the Summer of 2007
"At sea a fellow comes out.
Salt water is like wine, in that respect."
- Herman Melville
Our personal boating website:
http://www.maxumowners.org/MVSS.html
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