We left at 8:30AM for Peterborough, a trip of 40 miles and one lock, yippee No rain forecast and the weather people were right. Debbie took the helm for a spell across one of the Lakes we traversed today, a nice chang…
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Campbellford to Hastings Ontario
An uneventful day today traveling 40 miles and 6 locks to arrive at Hastings, Ontario. We departed at 8:45 AM to make the first lockage which starts around 9:00 AM. We tied up to the blue line and I walked up the hill to the lockmas…
Lock 6 to Campbellford Ontario
We departed the lock wall at 8:15 AM to arrive at the next lock by 9:15 when they open for business. We tied up on the blue line to the lockmaster knew we awaiting lockage. We walked Bryce in the adjacent park until the lock was ready. &n…
Trenton to Lock 6 Trent Severn Waterway
We awoke to thick fog, so we waited and at about 8:45 it lifted enough for safe navigation. We are beginning the Trent Severn waterway today, total length about 240 miles, connecting Lake Ontario to Lake Huron (Georgian Bay). Check out the…
Picton to Trenton, Ontario
Picton Harbour
We departed Picton, for Trenton at 9:15 AM, a 40 mile run at slow speed. The weather prediction was not good, rain and thunderstorms as a front is coming. The instruments on IH has a Sirius satel…
Across Lake Ontario
Oswego Lighthouse
We departed Oswego Marina at 8:20 AM for our 70 mile run to Picton, Ontario. We carried a full load of fuel as the price of diesel in Canada is $2 per gallon higher. The weather Gods cooperated, light wind and…
Brewerton to Oswego, NY
Oswego Canal Lock
Island Hopper departed the dock from Winter Harbor Marina (mile 150.2) on the Erie Canal at 9:20 AM. The skies were sunny wind N-5 and the temperature predicted to be in the mid 70s. A g…
2013 Finishing the Great Loop
We arrived in Brewerton, NY, a suburb of Syracuse, on Tuesday June 11. We rented a one way mini van loaded to the top with all of our worldly possessions for a few months on Island Hopper. About 600 miles and 10 hours.
We stayed in a Comf…
Captain’s Log
I want to summarize our travels this summer on Island Hopper. It was a journey of 2750 miles and 95 days aboard. I departed May 6 with my good friend and college buddy, Ed Daniel from our homeport of Longboat Key Moorings. We headed to Ft M…
