Made an early start to try to get locked through at least one of the big locks on the ship canal. Painfully slow progress south towards Montreal, revolutions for 8 knots but only making 4 over the ground (that’s why people do not do this trip in this direction) the river currents are against us all the way from here to Ottawa.
Another of the biggies, they look pretty inconspicuous at first…
Then they get bigger
Then they get really big
Then they are past and gone.
The Montreal skyline emerges
We swing through the port and into the canal, following another giant.
Then…… maintenance delay only an hour for us, some had been waiting three.
Finally packed us all in one end of the lock at three pm
Not sure why, the other end was empty
Out by four and into a little lagoon next to the canal.
Get to sit and watch them go by during dinner.
Into the Ottawa River tomorrow.
Boadicea's Chariot 