We are setting up this blog to record our adventure as we plan for and travel the great loop. We started our adventure by finding "just the right boat" in Georgian Bay, Kilbear marina, in May of 2008. She is a 36' Senator aft cabin motor yacht, with twin diesel engines. Our big adventure that summer was bringing the boat home through the Trent-Severn waterway to Crysler Park marina on the St. Lawrence River.
Then in July of 2009, we left to do the triangle, down the St. Lawrence to Montreal, up the Ottawa River, and down the Rideau Canal to Kingston, and back down the St. Lawrence to Crysler Park. Good way to get to know our boat better.
We are spending the fall and winter of 09-10 preparing both ourselves and the boat for our trip. Our plan is to leave on July 1, 2010. We will head up the St. Lawrence to Trenton, then back up the Trent-Severn system to Georgian Bay and beyond, completing the loop in the summer of 2011.
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Dear HIGH SPIRITS, Came across your fledgling blog today, January 30, 2010.
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Dear HIGH SPIRITS,
ReplyDeleteMy first comment was a dry run [because its winter and I am on land under my chic shrink-wrap] to discover how to successfully post a remark. I was correct in my efforts and can now invest much hunt-and -peck and do-over time in a more coherent and lengthy note.
PROWESS [bought Oct.'06] 1s a 1987 Cooper Yachts 9M Sundeck aft-cabin fly-bridge cruiser built in British Columbia. She is 32' long with integral bow-pulpit and bolt-on stern platform, and 12' wide. There is a double bed in the fully private bow guest cabin and a double bed in the private full-beam aft master cabin. Galley [with dual-voltage fridge, micro, propane stove/oven and large single bowl sink] and head [with separate shower stall] are forward of and down from the salon with L-shaped dinette and drop-leaf table for 6. The aft deck and bridge are protected by fully integrated enclosures. Nine inch wide side decks lead forward to the windlass and 50' chain/150'nylon road ending at the 25lb stainless claw anchor. She is berthed at Bay Moorings Marina in Penetanguishene the few days a year we are not on a cruise. In 2008 we were aboard PROWESS for 85 days and 84 nights while wandering to Ottawa and back. Mechanical problems resulting from winter work kept us in the T-S Waterway near marinas for all of our 2009 cruising, but we hope to work our way to Little Current and back this summer. We had all the charts, paper and electronic, and the appropriate Ports book well-read and annotated for use last year: we are confident they will still be relevant .
We will regularly visit this site to track HIGH SPIRITS' movements through the Canadian sectors of your Loop and beyond.
Wishing you good times we are,
Alice and Barry Jones
PROWESS
Shelburne, Ontario
meadlea@everus.ca