Re: 14 Days on the Erie Canal was: Re: Trip from Cape Cod? was:RE: [Cal_Boats] CAL-20(Chris H.)

Chris, Uh oh, there goes a bunch more memory cells gone. It's 15 miles on the Erie Canal. Seems the song ends with Sal the good ole mule and her teamster out of a job, so I bet their available to tow your boat! http://www.eriecanalvillage.net/pages/song.html --- On Tue, 2/10/09, Gerald Sobel <so… [at] yahoo.com> wrote: From: Gerald Sobel <so… [at] yahoo.com> Subject: 14 Days on the Erie Canal was: Re: Trip from Cape Cod? was:RE: [Cal_Boats] CAL-20(Chris H.) To: Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, February 10, 2009, 2:53 PM I remember my grammar school class was taught to sing "14 days on the Erie Canal" but I can't remember how the tune goes. I can see that would take half a month, all by itself! Does that site give you a list of companies with mule teams to tow your boat? Probably one mule would suffice. Jerry PS BTW.. I wonder if kids are taught these songs anymore, like "I dream of Jenny with the Light Brown Hair" and "....Camptown races..five miles long...Some body bet on the Mare...uh oh I think I'm dating myself. I understand many school districts have eliminated Music Teachers all together, so save money and .....well..we can't talk about polluhticks here. We conclude with a chorus of "Blow the man down" and "what do you do with a drunkin' sailor?" --- On Tue, 2/10/09, Chris h <chris123@magma. ca> wrote: From: Chris h <chris123@magma. ca> Subject: Re: Trip from Cape Cod? was:RE: [Cal_Boats] CAL-20(Chris H.) To: Cal_Boats@yahoogrou ps.com Date: Tuesday, February 10, 2009, 1:25 PM On Tuesday 10 February 2009 15:22:26 rshowarth@yahoo. com wrote: > No more free anchoring in the locks? That is what I heard through the grapevine. Now if you go to the New York & Erie Canal page they tell you that you may tie up below the docks overnight to pass through in the morning. Perhaps the canal is too full when the referenced party transitted so you had to stay at local moorings/marinas. To the best of my understanding you are not allowed to anchor at will anymore but the definitive source is here: (with a tel number) http://www.nyscanal s.gov/ http://www.nyscanal s.gov/contact/ index.html Wrt to your questions about the great loop, its part of it pending your route. As I know it the Great Lakes portion takes you into Lake Michigan at Chicago, then over to Mackinaw, then Manitoulin Island (undiscovered jewel of the great lakes especially the north channel) down into Lake Huron into Lake St.Clair to Lake Erie. Up the Welland Canal into Lake Ontario, past Kingston (Int'l Olympic Class sailboat training grounds) through the 1000 Islands (gorgeous waters) and out the St,Lawrence to Montreal, Quebec City. Past Quebec City the waters get brackish and the marine life changes: whales, belugas etc. This dumps you eventually into the Gulf of St. Lawrence where there is much to explore. The route then turns south through the Canadian Maritime Provinces and into US waters in Main This section of the route is usually described in reverse. Me thinks this is cause most folks do this via power boats. The prevailing winds however are from the west (W, NW, NNW) in the summer and the flow of the water is towards the Atlantic. So you really don't want to be going against both the currents and the wind for some 2000 miles. Some break it up into three sections unless your a full timer: The Great Lakes portion, the coastal portion and the Mississippi portions. http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ Great_loop http://www.greatloo p.com/topic. asp?pid=1 HTH's /ch