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"Wayne.B" wrote in message
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On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 03:07:20 GMT, "Thomas Wentworth"
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I was just goofing and I found this really sweet boat up on Lake
Michigan.
I started to wonder ?? How, what route, canals? whatever .... how would
I
go to sail the boat from up on Lake Michigan to Casco Bay, Maine.

It's a long trip and only doable in warm weather of course. Ask Roger
Long who went through the same decision process and ended up sailing
it on a truck. Not a bad choice in my opinion.

The basic water route is north on Lake Michigan, south on Lake Huron
to either the Trent-Svern canal system in Canada, or Lake Erie.
Either way you end up in Lake Ontario at Oswego where it is south to
New York City via the NYS Barge Canal and Hudson River. From NYC it
is about 300 miles up the coast to Casco Bay. The whole trip is well
over 1,200 miles and would be quite an adventure in a new untested
boat.


What's the difference between the NYS barge Canal and the Erie Canal? I
assume they both join the Hudson river? Is there a map that shows the
canals in New York State?

found a few maps.

http://www.eriecanal.org/maps/canal_map2.jpg

http://www.eriecanal.org/maps/canal_system-1903.jpg

http://www.eriecanal.org/maps/NYSCanalSystem-1987.jpg