{"id":325,"date":"2023-07-14T18:53:35","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T23:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/svguidance.com\/?p=325"},"modified":"2023-07-14T18:53:35","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T23:53:35","slug":"iroquois-eisenhower-and-snell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/test1.local\/iroquois-eisenhower-and-snell\/","title":{"rendered":"Iroquois, Eisenhower and Snell"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today we transited the first three locks on the St. Lawrence River. We had anchored about 1 mile from our first lock, Iroquois, and were very excited for Grace\u2019s first lock experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iroquois, however, was over almost before it began. They locked us through without any tie ups and we only went down about 8 inches. Underwhelming; especially since we had been talking up locks to Grace for about 24 hours. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eisenhower and Snell locks, though, were more dramatic. Eisenhower dropped us 43 feet and Snell another 46 feet. Also, the locks were full enough that we tied up to the lock, and another sailboat tied up to us. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We tied up to the wall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The floating bollard that we tied to<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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They tied up to us<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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46 feet down<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Chatting with the sailboat that tied to us, they mentioned they had seen us the previous day \u2014 and even gave us a picture they had snapped of Guidance. They are from the Montreal area and recommended an anchorage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019re in the anchorage now, and it\u2019s very nice. Before we could get to the anchorage, we had to go through Lake St. Francis \u2014 an area where the St. Lawrence River is quite wide and shallow. Along the way we snagged so many weeds on the rudders that we had to stop and send Anne to remove them!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Guidance as seen from another boat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Anne with some of the weeds<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Grace swam to a nearby island after we anchored<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Tomorrow, we plan to go through a few more locks and under a couple lift bridges to get into Montreal. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today we transited the first three locks on the St. Lawrence River. We had anchored about 1 mile from our first lock, Iroquois, and were very excited for Grace\u2019s first lock experience. Iroquois, however, was over almost before it began. They locked us through without any tie ups and we only went down about 8 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/test1.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/test1.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/test1.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/test1.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/test1.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/test1.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/test1.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/test1.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/test1.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/test1.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}