Captain Nick does not blog that often – – but today’s adventure deserves a blog!
We wanted to get an early start to the day, so we lined up to enter the first lock which was only about 50 yards from where we spent the evening. Eight boats plus a Wave runner were put into the lock with us. This was the most we had ever locked through with. We cleared lock 32 and the rest of the locks to the Trent Canal with virtually no stress.
Upon arrival to the furthest east end of the Trent Canal we saw that everything got VERY NARROW!!! It didn’t help that my shallow water alarm started going off like crazy! For the next hour or so we were faced with a passage that was 24 feet wide- – and only about 4 1/2 feet deep. The vessel acquisition is about 16 feet wide and so there was roughly 3 to 4 feet on either side of the boat during the entire time we were traversing the canal. Teri stood up front on the bow and was able to see that there were rocks on both the port and starboard side that came awful close to either side of our boat.
As we continued on the Canal, we finally arrived at Lock 36 which is the second largest hydraulic lift lock on the Trent Severn waterway. We were raised almost 50 feet and it was quite a view as we came out the other end. The fun however wasn’t over yet. We still had about 6 miles of extremely skinny water (anywhere from 4-6 feet). When we finally arrived at Sunset Cove Marina, both Captain Nick and first mate Teri celebrated with a well earned a cocktail!
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