August 23 – Port of Montreal and Dorval

Patrick’s recommendation was to stay within 10 feet of the shoreline.  We were usually about 10 Meters. 

We had a two-hour wait at St. Lambert lock and another couple of hours at St. Catherine's locks.  The Seaway website did say there would be a lot of commercial traffic.

We waited a further 40 minutes for the train bridge near Mercier.  Once a Via Rail train passed, they let us through.  It was getting late.  We eventually came back to Dorval in the dark.  

What a very, very long day...

What a way to buy your oil

Spectators

A different view of the Big 'O'

The Picton Castle is going downriver

Back in Lake St. Louis at sunset

August 22 -St-Ours to Montreal East

Real drove us to St-Ours.  

We loaded up the boat, and they launched us.  Upon launch, we inspected the bottom and found water was flooding into the shaft packing.  Norm tightened the packing nut, and we were down to a drop every few seconds.  We kept an eye on it for the next week.

The winds were strong. Once launched, we took off quickly, without time to try to dock or wave goodbye.  We motored to Sorel and turned left.  About an hour after Sorel, we put up the sails.

Nice sail of about 25 miles on the small craft channel to an anchorage between Ile à Aigle and Iles aux Canards, Iles aux Asperges, and Ile Montreal. 

Supper consisted of Daniele's fab marinated pork chops.

Nice to be afloat again.

Our valiant Pilot

Milky waters near Sorel

 

August 21 – inspection and clean up

The guys, including Marina Boisvert, left a mess of fibreglass dust throughout the cabin, engine room, and locker.

Daniele and I drove out on Sunday morning with a compressor and shop vac to clean her up before bringing her back home.  It was just awful.

We spent ten man-hours cleaning her.