Admirals Marina, Honey Harbor

Our goal was to check out Admirals Marina since that is where we wanted to put the boat for the winter. The Marina caters mostly to cottage boats (cottages only accessible by water) but has great depth in the docks (15 feet) and a large hydraulic lift to pull the boat.

Ed is in his diving outfit changing the props because we dinged the port prop in Rosedale in the channel. He changed both props in 45 minutes--pretty good for a beginner under water.

44 52.416'N

79 49.047'W

Bay Port Yatch Club, Midland, On

We reluctanly left the Trent Severn Waterways after spending about 39 days moving from beginning to end. It was a wonderful experience and we met a lot of very nice people. By now we are very much behind the loopers (those doing the loop continuously are closing in on Chicago). We headed over to the port of Midland via the Waubaushene Channel. The lockmaster at Port Severn was very careful to instruct us on the change in color of markers as we made passage out of the Port Severn area. There is some shoaling around the markers and he told us which side to favor. It is tricky because the buoys change from green, then red, then green again on starboard. Well, we made it okay. It was a very different feeling going out into a large body of water after being in lakes, rivers and canals for so long.

We needed a new battery for our generator which brought us to Bay Port Yatch Club. Ed also repaired the syncronizer switch on the flybridge.

We met Pete who had been to the Newport Boat Show and spent some time in Mystic area and has a Walker Bay dinghy just like ours.

44 45.584'N
79 53.899'W

Lock 45 Port Severn

A view from the lock wall. This is the last lock in the Trent Severn. We are now about to enter Georgian Bay and a new adventure.
44 48.268'N
79 43.267'W

Big Chute

44 53.138'N

79 40.471'W

Big Chute is a marine railroad that lifts the boats out of the water on one side, moves the boats over land and puts them in water on the other side. The drop for us was about 58 feet. You stay on the boat while they are doing this.

Big Chute

The is a view from our boat on big chute. Big Chute is like a dry dock.

Swift Rapids Lock

The lock picture shows how much the lift is on this lock. It is the biggest lift of the conventional locks. Once they start the process they have to fill it or empty the lock. The other picture shows the narrow passage, McDonalds Cut.

44 51.421'N

79 32.327'W

Anchorage McLean Bay

The weather prediction was for winds about 10 knots. It turned out to be more like 25 knots and stormy. We decided to anchor out, the winds finally subsided around 10pm and it was calm after that.

44 50.694'N

79 23.540W