Our Journey Begins

Our friend Ed  wanted his boat"Last Cat"  in the Bahamas  and  couldn't  leave work in time to get  it there himself,  and as we  have a hard time turning down an adventure on the water - we volunteered to get it there for him. Little did we know at the time that flooding after Hurricane Irene would keep the Erie Canal closed.                                                                Last Cat is a PDQ 34 Power Cat, and you can see some great photos of it on a Charter Website http://www.cycnorth.com/cat/pdq34.html 

So, instead of just crossing Lake Ontario into the Erie Canal,  our route will take us up the St. Lawrence Seaway,  then past Montreal  into the Richelieu River, then down through the Chambly Canal,  into Lake Champlain and the Champlain Canal before joining up with the Hudson River.  This will add  about 10 days to our trip and  we are starting about a month later than most people advise.  We figure we will be  about 1800 miles in total and   our plan is to arrive by the end of November and then  spend a couple of weeks in the Bahamas before  we head back home to Nova Scotia. So,  we've bundled up our warm clothes,  grabbed our trusty mascot Annie  and  headed out.  This is our first Powerboat adventure and we are keeping our fingers crossed for  warm weather and calm seas.