Sunday Aug. 31

Today was another short running day for us as the Big Chute Lock was still not in operation this morning. At 0900 this morning I called the lock to find out if they were up and running and was told that they were no further ahead than they were yesterday so we wait. While waiting we got some more little things taken care of (it's amazing how many little things need to be done). I continued to call the lock every hour for status updates and finally at 1200 I received the green light that they were up and running. Engines started anchor up and here we go heading for the Big Chute Lock. There was only one other boat going into the lock with us and it was probably a good thing it was a small boat as once I was in there, there didn't seem to be that much space and my back end was hanging over the back of the rail car. The nice Lock Master went down and looked under the boat and gave everything a quick look and said all looks good.

The poor lady in the boat ahead of us didn't look so good because she kept looking back to make sure we were not moving forward and running over them. On the way out of the lock one of the engines wouldn't start and with the current, I ended up killing one of our fenders but it's much better than scrapping up the boat so we will just get another one later. Now on to the Port Severn Lock the last one number 45 and the current and winds there were definitely not in our favor and the lock was in the lower position so instead of trying to tie up we just floated around waiting for the lock to come up and open.

Now on to Georgian Bay and it's many, many islands and even more rocks. We cruised up to portage point which is just past Honey Harbor and dropped anchor in a little bay for the night.