It was a very full day today. We pulled away from Dorval at 7am and landing in Sorel at 7pm. It was a very long, full-of-excitement day! We had 2 locks to do as well. We went by the old expo site and the Olympic Stadium as well. The 
biggest excitement is when we noticed that a storm was coming our way. We were tracking it on our radar and we could see the lightening in the distance. We zipped all the enclosure and got a good fix on our position in the channel. We are in the shipping channel....so, any loss of visability is not great for us. Especially, with ships coming our way. Sure enough, the sky blackened and the skies opened up! We couldn't see a thing. We knew that nothing was coming for a short while and just hoped that it wouldn't last too long. It lasted only about 5 minutes, but it was a very long 5 minutes. We moved to the outside of the channel and slowed down a bit. Then, the skies cleared and we were on our way again. Within 30 minutes we were tracking another storm. We felt ok about it as we had just gone through it. But, j
ust as the storm was approaching we could see a ship in the channel coming our way. These things are huge! There was lots of water outside of the channel, so we had planned to move far aside if the storm hits. Luckily, we seemed to dodge it and all was well. We landed in Sorel, just at the top of the Champlain system before the sun went down. Now, we have to find out if the Champlain canal is open all of the way. Only the last 4 locks were still closed due to high water. (The pic of the engine is the grass that we keep having to clear from our props. It is all over floating in mats. We try to avoid it, but we have to stop every hour or so and lift the engines to clear).
biggest excitement is when we noticed that a storm was coming our way. We were tracking it on our radar and we could see the lightening in the distance. We zipped all the enclosure and got a good fix on our position in the channel. We are in the shipping channel....so, any loss of visability is not great for us. Especially, with ships coming our way. Sure enough, the sky blackened and the skies opened up! We couldn't see a thing. We knew that nothing was coming for a short while and just hoped that it wouldn't last too long. It lasted only about 5 minutes, but it was a very long 5 minutes. We moved to the outside of the channel and slowed down a bit. Then, the skies cleared and we were on our way again. Within 30 minutes we were tracking another storm. We felt ok about it as we had just gone through it. But, j
ust as the storm was approaching we could see a ship in the channel coming our way. These things are huge! There was lots of water outside of the channel, so we had planned to move far aside if the storm hits. Luckily, we seemed to dodge it and all was well. We landed in Sorel, just at the top of the Champlain system before the sun went down. Now, we have to find out if the Champlain canal is open all of the way. Only the last 4 locks were still closed due to high water. (The pic of the engine is the grass that we keep having to clear from our props. It is all over floating in mats. We try to avoid it, but we have to stop every hour or so and lift the engines to clear).
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