July 2012

        …encouraged by a young fool. The first picture is the young fool just before she hit the water. The second picture is the splash of the old fool as he hit the water. Yes friends, Tara and I have topped the bridge jumping episode by going cliff diving at Lake Topaz, […]

For this story we need to go back to Thursday morning.     We had awakened in Britt on Byng Inlet at 0500 and pulled out with Kismet in hopes of beating the predicted weather that was set to move into Lake Huron and ultimately Georgian Bay. Waves were forecast at one meter and winds

I thought it might be a good time to look back on some photos I never had a chance to share and catching up on some things I meant to share. So here goes.         Ken and Pat Goewey, they are already back in the USA trying to make Minnesota for Pat’s

    On 7/22 we straggled out of South Bay Cove and headed back to the small craft channel. I say straggled because no two boats seemed to leave at the same time though all would end up at the same location including one welcomed addition. The trip to Henry’s Fish Restaurant was a mandatory

            Yes it sounds like a sneeze but it is a lovely town deep inside Penetang Bay where we have stopped to spend the day.     We departed Midland where I spent the kids inheritance and steered one bay over to this nice little town where everything is so

I hardly know where to start. At the beginning seems most logical and there is a happy though very expensive ending. We awoke early at the Big Chute Railway which I will give a dissertation on shortly. I went to crank the generator so Jan could make her morning coffee and we could charge everything

…nor dark of night shall stay this boat from it’s appointed rounds. Well it used to work for the Post Office so I thought I could use it. We did head out Tuesday morning with an iffy weather forecast of high winds and thundershowers. And certainly the high winds part was right on. Within minutes

That’s the way we say it in Canada, eh. And that is where we went on Friday the 13th. Lucky for us there was no disaster but Jackets II believes they hit a rock pretty solid inside the channel buoys. So the rest of us actually purposefully went outside the channel to avoid it. Later

Well I promised you better pictures of the bridge jumping as soon as we could work out the technical details and here they are. Nuff said.                                                    

After two night’s sleeping on the wall beside Lock #20 it was time to move out and face the challenge and excitement of the Peterborough Lift Lock. It was only a few hundred yards away and beckoned to us. But before we get there I need to catch up to this point which will only