mike66 wrote:Someday do you plan on posting details of your route so that others (like me) can have a guide?
As requested, here are the basics. Stopover points are subjective, I can document those if you'd like as well.
We started in the Connecticut River in Portland Ct, then south to Long Island Sound. West to New York City, then thru the Harlem River to the Hudson River.
North on the Hudson past Albany and Troy, NY to the Erie Canal. West on the Erie to Three Rivers Junction (23 nlocks) then north on the Oswego canal (7 locks) to Oswego, NY. We crossed Lake Ontario to Kingston, Ontario, Canada, then went west via the Bay of Quinte to Trenton, Ca. which is the start of the Trent river and the Trent-Severn Waterway. This system has 44 locks and winds its way west and north thru Rice Lake, Otonobee river, several small lakes, Lake Simcoe, and ends in Port Severn, Ont. We then went into the Georgian Bay and followed the small craft channel (on the east side of the Bay) to Killarny, and then into the North Channel. After 2 plus weeks there we started back from Little Current, Ont and basically retraced our path stopping at some different places on the return trip.
You can find the waterways and watch locks operate via a google search. Some of them are particularly interesting such as the Peterborough hydraulic lock and the Big Chute marine railway that lifts boats over a hillside.
