Wayne.B wrote:

Exactly right. At the discretion of the canal operators, they may
allow you to proceed with a bit more than 5 ft if you sign waivers.

Several years ago, there was a PBS special of a DeFever 50, a wooden
trawler, transiting many of the inland waters of North America.

They transited the Ohio, Mississippi and Illinois rivers as well as
many parts of the Great Lakes & St Lawrence rivers.

They wanted to traverse the Trent-Severn, which is certainly
understandable, if for no other reasons the scenery and the railway.

The Defever's master had to sign a waver that basically said, if they
got stuck, the canal operators could blow up the boat to clear the canal.

The Defever is too large to be able to turn around in the canal.

IMHO, that is one hell of a roll of the dice. Glad I didn't have to
make that decision.


Lew