14 July, 2010
The day has finally come! We left Crysler Park Marina this morning for our adventure – THE GREAT LOOP.
A big thank you to management and staff at CPM for their help and support over the past weeks. Also thank you to all of our friends for their well wishes.
It was difficult to say goodbye to family, but we will be keeping in touch. Megan and Jeff, with Taryn, Tali and Tori, came to see us off. That was great. Beth with Xavier and Lukas had been to say good-bye on Monday evening
We were through Iroquois Lock by noon, no delay there. Reached Ganonoque Municipal Marina at 6:40 pm, where we met friends Gordie and Esther. A good visit, plus Esther took me to the grocery store here for a few last minute items, including some treats like ice cream bars. Weather was hot and humid all day, with sun and clouds. Remains warm this evening, Ganonoque has a good crop of mosquitoes.
Few issues during the day with the port engine intermittently getting a little warm, then it would return to normal. Not sure what the problem is.
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The Great Loop
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Wayne and Ruth
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- Wayne and Ruth
- We are both retired. Ruth is a Registered nurse, taught nursing at the local Community college; Wayne is retired from farming, sold farm products. We are the proud parents of 3 children and 5 grandchildren. 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. We left in July of 2010, heading 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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