Miles Traveled 5.69
Total Miles Traveled 5256
Day 310
A close call in our first lock
of the day, it was cloudy and calm when the lock doors opened at 9 a.m... We slowly moved our way to the front of the
lock with “LeryLynn” following. I maneuvered the boat close to the wall and Moni
wrapped the line around the wall cable, all of the sudden I hear a terrible clash
and banging. I leaned over the fly
bridge window expecting the railing and fiberglass to be ripped from the boat
to find that the cable connector at the top of the lock had broken and fell
down to our boat. Moni was very lucky
the cable and spacer block didn’t hit her when it fell…she was standing almost
directly under it. To make matters
worse, the next cable we tried to tie to broke loose from the bottom.
The cable pulled loose from a
connector like this one, and the cable glanced off of the fly bridge canvas to
the handrail, and the block landed on the deck.
How it all kept from hitting Moni is a miracle.
If it hadn’t been for the storm
we had yesterday, causing us to stay on the lock wall before entering the lock,
the broken cable would have happened during the gusty winds we experienced all
day yesterday and we would have had a heck of a time controlling the boat
inside the lock with nothing to grab on to.
The lock master said he has only
heard of one cable connector breaking since he has been on the Trent-Severn
system…..and we had two in the same lock.
Approaching lock #9
Lock #11
We found there are black
squirrels here.
Tied to the city dock wall at
Campbellford, ON
Campbellford is the home town of the artist who drew the polar bear on the $2 Canadian coin, this statue is a 27 foot replica of the coin.
This guy was very interested in where he had been…..there
were 6 rear view mirrors on his scooter.
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