Wayne.B wrote:
On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 18:34:01 -0400, Marty wrote:

Wayne.B wrote:
On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 15:18:26 -0400, Marty wrote:

Looks like you're stuck just before Lock 19,,

There's been a lot of rain in the last 36 hours, I wonder if the lock is
out of operation until the water lever goes down. Or maybe they don't
operate on weekends at the end of season?
They operate on weekends but if something goes wrong with the old and
creaky electrical gear there is probably no one around on a Sunday to
fix it.

Dang Gov'mint,, you know that there's more than enough expertise on that
boat to fix pretty much anything. To bad they wouldn't be allowed to do
just that.


Some of that old gear they use on the canal looks like it belongs in a
museum. It was old when I was a kid. We did the reverse trip from
what Roger is doing in the summer of 2000 and were delayed several
times for lock repairs. We also get the same issue with lift bridges
here in Florida from time to time.

They know how to deal with lock equipment problems on the small
Canadian canals. Everything is hand cranked by college kids. :-)



Yup, I grew up around the Rideau, lived for a while on the canal withins
sight of the Kingston Mills Locks, and live on a Island just outside of
that canal. Hard to beat good old gears, chains, rods and hand power.

Cheers
Martin

On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 19:51:33 -0400, Marty wrote:

Yup, I grew up around the Rideau, lived for a while on the canal withins
sight of the Kingston Mills Locks, and live on a Island just outside of
that canal. Hard to beat good old gears, chains, rods and hand power.

Cool. We have fond memories of that cruise in our old Bertram 33. Up
the NYS/Erie/Oswego canals to Lake Ontario; across the lake to
Kingston; up the Rideal to Ottawa; down the Ottawa River to Montreal;
St Lawrence River to Sorel; Richelieu River and Chambly Canal back to
Lake Champlain; and then south to the Hudson River/NYC.

Here's a picture of us on that trip, headed north on the Oswego Canal
towards Fulton, NY and Lake Ontario:

http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/1...djustedzy5.jpg

Wayne.B wrote:
On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 19:51:33 -0400, Marty wrote:

Yup, I grew up around the Rideau, lived for a while on the canal withins
sight of the Kingston Mills Locks, and live on a Island just outside of
that canal. Hard to beat good old gears, chains, rods and hand power.

Cool. We have fond memories of that cruise in our old Bertram 33. Up
the NYS/Erie/Oswego canals to Lake Ontario; across the lake to
Kingston; up the Rideal to Ottawa; down the Ottawa River to Montreal;
St Lawrence River to Sorel; Richelieu River and Chambly Canal back to
Lake Champlain; and then south to the Hudson River/NYC.

Here's a picture of us on that trip, headed north on the Oswego Canal
towards Fulton, NY and Lake Ontario:

http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/1...djustedzy5.jpg


Nice trip Wayne, you would have passed west of Wolfe Island, I live at
the east end of that island.

Cheers
Martin