Category: 3rd Year On The Great Loop

Thursday, August 2-Sunday, August 5 Port Severn Lock #45 is the smallest lock on the Trent.  Only one of our big boats could go through at a time.  We had to wait for some...

Wednesday August 1 We left Swift Rapids and went through what Pam thought was the prettiest part of the Trent with some interesting things on the way.     Check out how narrow this is…...

Tuesday July 31 The night before we had heard that a railroad swing bridge that we needed to go through was stuck closed. They were working on it so we waited to hear that...

Saturday, July 28th-Monday July 30 In the morning, we had 2 locks (Locks 40 and 41) to go through before we got to Lake Simcoe. These lock walls had just been redone and the...

Friday, July 27 Portage Lock 39 We left Fenelon Falls and slid through Rosedale lock and get to the 2nd lift lock, the Kirkfield lock.   Always something to maneuver around… This was just...

Tuesday July 24-Thursday July  26. Bobcaygeon and Fenelon Falls We left Lakefield early morning heading to Bobcaygeon.  We had 40 miles and 4 locks to go through.  This section of the Trent is lovely...

We spent 6 days at the Peterbourough Marina.   Once again we waited for lots of other boats who wanted to be the first ones through Lock 20.  This lock was just outside of...

Tuesday July 17-Sunday July 22 We left Hastings early in the morning because we knew that we had a way to cruise.  This was our longest distance that we have cruised since we started...

Sunday July 15-Monday July 16 We didn’t get to leave the wall in Campbellford until after 11:00.  Everytime we would get ready to untie our lines another boat would take off in front of...

Tuesday July 10th -Saturday July 14th Tuesday we went through our first 6 locks on the Trent Severn. These locks are different than the Rideau.  These locks are run mostly by hydraulics.  When we...