On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 12:49:44 -0500, Matt Colie
wrote:

Ken,
Two questions:
Is the swing bridge at St. Peter still swung by two men on a capstan?
Can a sailboat still make it through the Bras d'Or to the east and out
at St Andrew's?
It was thirty some years ago I was there, but the memory still lives.
Matt Colie

It is some years since I was there, but the bridge at St Peter canal
was manual, but it was not a swing bridge. It rolled diagonally onto
land on a pair for RR tracks.

The other end of the Lakes was a buoyed channel without a lock. The
tides ran pretty fast. It was plenty deep enough to carry 7 feet.




Rodney Myrvaagnes J36 Gjo/a


Does one child rape really change Strom Thurmond's lifetime record?
For better or worse?

Try stopping in at Armdale Yacht Club when your there...May even be able to
get transient mooring for a bit...
Probably cheaper than Downtown Halifax...

Club manager is: Kristine Jagoe
email:

Very friendly club and close to "the binnacle" if you need any spare
parts....


--
Cheers,
Jeffrey Nelson
Muir Caileag
C&C 30
"Sheldon Haynie" wrote in message
...
After a hiatus due to family issues, Lioness will again be terrorizing the
North Atlantic. We are contemplating a 30 day Cruise to Nova Scotia and
perhaps PEI. Planning to go out 10 days, probably non stop to Halifax and
then on to PEI and back 20 days seeing what there is to see East of Bar
Harbor.

Any suggestions of

1. "must stop" at ports are welcome.

2. Which Charts? Canadian Hydrographic or someone else's?

3. Ports for meeting crew from US?

Thanks
Sheldon



--
Sheldon Haynie
Texas Instruments
50 Phillipe Cote
Manchester, NH 03101
603 222 8652

Try stopping in at Armdale Yacht Club when your there...May even be able to
get transient mooring for a bit...
Probably cheaper than Downtown Halifax...

Club manager is: Kristine Jagoe
email:

Very friendly club and close to "the binnacle" if you need any spare
parts....


--
Cheers,
Jeffrey Nelson
Muir Caileag
C&C 30
"Sheldon Haynie" wrote in message
...
After a hiatus due to family issues, Lioness will again be terrorizing the
North Atlantic. We are contemplating a 30 day Cruise to Nova Scotia and
perhaps PEI. Planning to go out 10 days, probably non stop to Halifax and
then on to PEI and back 20 days seeing what there is to see East of Bar
Harbor.

Any suggestions of

1. "must stop" at ports are welcome.

2. Which Charts? Canadian Hydrographic or someone else's?

3. Ports for meeting crew from US?

Thanks
Sheldon



--
Sheldon Haynie
Texas Instruments
50 Phillipe Cote
Manchester, NH 03101
603 222 8652

Thanks for all of the responses.

We will be coming from Portsmouth, New Hampshire in early July, I will
probably aim for landfall at Yarmouth or Halifax depending on weather and if
we are fortunate will try to get into Bras d'Or and then as far as
Newfoundland to Port a Basque (sp?) before then going to PEI before winding
back through the Canso channel and homeward.

I know the Chignecto railway was never operational, is there any recommended
local haulers that could move Bermuda 40 from Tidnish to Fundy ? That would
give a good circuit of the whole realm including Fundy and NB, while saving
on some distance that would look pretty much the same westbound as east.


Sheldon


--
Sheldon Haynie
Texas Instruments
50 Phillipe Cote
Manchester, NH 03101
603 222 8652

Thanks for all of the responses.

We will be coming from Portsmouth, New Hampshire in early July, I will
probably aim for landfall at Yarmouth or Halifax depending on weather and if
we are fortunate will try to get into Bras d'Or and then as far as
Newfoundland to Port a Basque (sp?) before then going to PEI before winding
back through the Canso channel and homeward.

I know the Chignecto railway was never operational, is there any recommended
local haulers that could move Bermuda 40 from Tidnish to Fundy ? That would
give a good circuit of the whole realm including Fundy and NB, while saving
on some distance that would look pretty much the same westbound as east.


Sheldon


--
Sheldon Haynie
Texas Instruments
50 Phillipe Cote
Manchester, NH 03101
603 222 8652

On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 12:49:44 -0500, Matt Colie
wrote:

Ken,
Two questions:
Is the swing bridge at St. Peter still swung by two men on a capstan?

no! it is powered and one man who leaves the station to turn the switch
and it rotates to lay par~ll to the canal.
It is FREE to transit but schedule must be checked to insure they are open
when you want to transit...seasonally that is.

Can a sailboat still make it through the Bras d'Or to the east and out
at St Andrew's?

Yes, under the SealIsl bridge.
VERY VERY beautiful trip to Ingonish, Aspy Bay, Bay St Lawrence, etc.

Rick NW29.
Gaviidae

On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 12:49:44 -0500, Matt Colie
wrote:

Ken,
Two questions:
Is the swing bridge at St. Peter still swung by two men on a capstan?

no! it is powered and one man who leaves the station to turn the switch
and it rotates to lay par~ll to the canal.
It is FREE to transit but schedule must be checked to insure they are open
when you want to transit...seasonally that is.

Can a sailboat still make it through the Bras d'Or to the east and out
at St Andrew's?

Yes, under the SealIsl bridge.
VERY VERY beautiful trip to Ingonish, Aspy Bay, Bay St Lawrence, etc.

Rick NW29.
Gaviidae

It has been way too long, I really want to get back there some one of
these days. Even if it is too early in the year for the oysters to be
any good.
Thank you Cape Islanders
Matt

rick wrote:
On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 12:49:44 -0500, Matt Colie

wrote:

Ken,
Two questions:
Is the swing bridge at St. Peter still swung by two men on a capstan?


no! it is powered and one man who leaves the station to turn the switch
and it rotates to lay par~ll to the canal.
It is FREE to transit but schedule must be checked to insure they are
open when you want to transit...seasonally that is.

Can a sailboat still make it through the Bras d'Or to the east and out
at St Andrew's?


Yes, under the SealIsl bridge.
VERY VERY beautiful trip to Ingonish, Aspy Bay, Bay St Lawrence, etc.

Rick NW29.
Gaviidae

It has been way too long, I really want to get back there some one of
these days. Even if it is too early in the year for the oysters to be
any good.
Thank you Cape Islanders
Matt

rick wrote:
On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 12:49:44 -0500, Matt Colie

wrote:

Ken,
Two questions:
Is the swing bridge at St. Peter still swung by two men on a capstan?


no! it is powered and one man who leaves the station to turn the switch
and it rotates to lay par~ll to the canal.
It is FREE to transit but schedule must be checked to insure they are
open when you want to transit...seasonally that is.

Can a sailboat still make it through the Bras d'Or to the east and out
at St Andrew's?


Yes, under the SealIsl bridge.
VERY VERY beautiful trip to Ingonish, Aspy Bay, Bay St Lawrence, etc.

Rick NW29.
Gaviidae