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Default Upper Lake Michigan to Maine ??? How , what route, info


"ted" wrote
"ted" wrote
"Wayne.B" wrote
"Thomas Wentworth" wrote


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.

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.


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


This one says its the "official" new york state map of the canal.

http://www.canals.state.ny.us/maps/index.html