Friday, July 4, 2014

Arrived Montreal

Today we finished the last two locks above Montreal.   We time the first one just right, we arrived just as  whole bunch of other pleasure crafts were entering the lock.  But the second one we had to wait and hour before it was our turn.   Then this lock took for every to drop us down 25 feet.   Glad it was the last one.

After we exit the last lock we went down river for about a mile then we turn back up river to enter the old port of Montreal.   I had to run the engine at 3000 rpms to make any head way at all.  Normal at this rpm the boat would move along at 7 or more knots in the river for an hour we were only making 1 to 2 knots.  I took us over an hour to claw our way up to the marine.   The marine was very nice, clean,  new but pricy.   The cost for our boat was $ 120.00 for the night plus $20.00 for the pump out.  This is the most pricy we have run into yet.  But it docks you right in downtown in Montreal.
Tomorrow we are expecting to make 3 rivers.

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