I live at 401 and Warden The boat is at Queen City Yacht Club on Toronto Island, I strongly recommend a club, FB is OK but can get really shallow. There is another 270 at QCYC and he has no problems getting in and out. I Did the trip last year down the St. lawrence to Montreal and then up the Ottawa River to Ottawa and back via the Rideau. Toronto to Montreal can be done in a leisurely 10 days. Quebec city is another 4-5, but there are some serious issues with current, a set of rapids above Trois Rivierres. The real problem is trying to come back against the current. I would strongly suggest trucking the boat back. 2 years ago I went down as far as Chryseller Park and the first 2 days coming back we had trouble making 3.5 knots with the A-4 wide open against the current. You could truck back to Montreal and then go up the Ottawa and down the Rideau (which is all motoring as the waterway has only 22 feet of air-draft, so you have to have the mast on deck until you get back to Kingston.
If you are interested, the first half of the trip is blogged on-line at http://www.sailblogs.com/member/peregrine3695/ and there are pictures with captions linked below You are invited to view David's photo album: Peregrine's 2009 Cruise Peregrine's 2009 Cruise 29 Aug 2009 by David View Album Play slideshow If you are having problems viewing this email, copy and paste the following into your browser: http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/sredir?uname=Peregrine3695&target=ALBUM&id=5420734629299444609&authkey=Gv1sRgCJa5s8-MxK3uvgE&invite=COy8w5YD&feat=email To share your photos or receive notification when your friends share photos, get your own free Picasa Web Albums account. Dave Robinson Peregrine 1978 Catalina 27 #3695 QCYC, Toronto Sailing "The fine art of getting wet and being sick while slowly going nowhere" Albert Eistein On 2-Mar-10, at 10:34 PM, Ron Ginter wrote: > Hi Dave, > > I'm at Frenchman's Bay in Pickering, right in the shadow of the > nuclear power plant! I've been told that the harbour in Whitby is > much nicer, but for this year at least we'll stay put. My first > mate loves the area, with bars and restaurants, and live music in > the summer, and we've already made friends with a few of our marina > neighbours. > > Are you in the Etobicoke end of Toronto? > > ...Ron > > On 2010 Mar 01, at 10:54 PM, Dave Robinson wrote: > >> Welcome Ron >> I take from your e-mail address that you are somewhere close by. >> Where will you be sailing from? >> >> >> Dave Robinson >> Peregrine >> 1978 Catalina 27 #3695 >> QCYC, Toronto >> >> "Any damn fool can navigate the world sober. It takes a really good >> sailor to do it drunk". >> -Sir Francis Chichester while loading his boat with gin. >> >> >> > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
