Timeless Yacht

Another beautiful day. Campbellford to Hastings. A relatively easy 17+ nm run in a little under 4 and a half hours including 6 locks including the Healy Falls flight raising us up over 50 ft. There are bigger locks to come, it's quite quite impressive.

The waterway is varied including cottages, houses, rural settings, farmland and towns. Hastings is pretty small but the Captain's Table, family style restaurant is known for great fish and chips, which we enjoyed.

Dee decided to serve 12 Bean Soup, with fresh bread from Dooher's and a fresh brewed mint iced tea with mint delivered by Patti from Pirates Cove Marina, just before we got to Oswego. YUM!

Ed and Kyle, gold loopers dropped off more butter tarts and Kawartha Dairy Ice cream. more YUM!

We're going to leave early, with just one lock before our destination in Peterborough, we're going to get their a little bit earlier and head up to the lock to check out the one of a king hydraulic lift lock that opened in 1904. We get to transit the lock on Friday.

Today was one of those nearly perfect days. Of course it started at cool, but we are in Canada, 🇨🇦 eh? But we started early at 0600 to get to the first lock at 1100. It warmed up as the day progressed. By the end of the day it seemed like the start of June brought summer with it. It’s almost as if we’re being rewarded for the rain and delays on the Erie / Oswego canals.

Darlene rewarded us with a delectable breakfast of deep dish blueberry French toast, hard boiled eggs, berries and melon.

We’ve never done the Trent Severn waterway so we didn’t know what to expect. With locks only open from 1000 to 1530p we wanted to make sure we made it through all 6 planned locks, hence the early departure from Picton for the 35nm or so run to the first lock. Even though lock crews are traveling with us, since it’s slow we had two crews. The crew who checked us in, and locked us through 1, went to lock 3, not 2. A different crew had the lock ready at 2, and met us at 4. The same for 5 and 6. Locks were open, ready and efficient. We traveled the entire 5nm ish at idle , locked through 6 locks with relative ease in a little over 2.5 hours including waiting for 15 min at lock, and getting checked in and paying for our mooring pass.

The water is noticeably cleaner. Cables on lock walls are easy to grab and well spaced and everything is a bit less muddy. Win!

Of course we sampled the local ice cream, enjoyed a walk, some time aboard, and took some drone footage.

With locks only opening from 1000 to 1530 we’ll depart at 0900 tomorrow to travel the hour to the first lock and transit 6 more up to Campbellford tomorrow.