| Great Loop Locks |
| America's Great Loop The Locks |
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| The Locks |
| Entrance to Locks - Lockport, NY on the Erie Canal. |
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The animated graph above is a visual example of how
'the locks' work to raise (or lower) your vessel along
the way.
From the Hudson River (sea level), you have a choice of
traveling through the Erie Canal which has 57 locks - that
will raise your vessel 565 feet above sea level to Lake
Erie at Buffalo, NY, or you may choose to take the detour
and cruise up to Ottawa - the capital of Canada, and the
Westminster of the Wilderness. In Ottawa, your vessel
locks on the Rideau Canal. It's a spectator sport for the
locals, as they watch you navigate the locks. The
parliament buildings and the Hotel Laurier border the
canal, where from a-board your boat... you will have the
best seat in town for watching the changing of the guard,
and have a very short walk to restaurants and outdoor
theaters.
The water of Lake Huron's Georgian Bay and North
Channel is gin-clear, and the anchorages among the pink
granite islands are a summer playground for Great Lakes
boaters. In the Benjamin Islands boaters tie to the rocks
and trees and to each other's boats; forming huge rafts.
There, they swim, and eat, and become brown as nuts.
The Walleye and Pike fishing there, is as good as it gets
anywhere in the world.
After you cruise the Great Lakes, the inland rivers
southward from Chicago offer gracious waterways, the
towns along the shore will tempt you for a dinner out...
And then, there is the land of trees and lakes and rivers
and anglers. As you cruise south on the Great Rivers you
will spend a lot of time rubber-necking at other boats,
people, sites and funky looking fish camps. You will
probably detour a little, and head east on the Ohio as far
as you can go, and then west on the Missouri. Then, back
down the Mississippi where you will find some great
anchorages on the Cumberland and the Tennessee rivers
with fascinating places to visit; Nashville on the
Cumberland, Chattanooga, and Knoxville on the
Tennessee. On the rivers themselves there are a
thousand buoys and markers, and yes, even more locks,
and bridges that have to be raised. There are narrow
channels, big rivers and sounds as big and exciting as
many of the lakes. It's exciting, and fun, but most of all...
'the locks' work to raise (or lower) your vessel along
the way.
From the Hudson River (sea level), you have a choice of
traveling through the Erie Canal which has 57 locks - that
will raise your vessel 565 feet above sea level to Lake
Erie at Buffalo, NY, or you may choose to take the detour
and cruise up to Ottawa - the capital of Canada, and the
Westminster of the Wilderness. In Ottawa, your vessel
locks on the Rideau Canal. It's a spectator sport for the
locals, as they watch you navigate the locks. The
parliament buildings and the Hotel Laurier border the
canal, where from a-board your boat... you will have the
best seat in town for watching the changing of the guard,
and have a very short walk to restaurants and outdoor
theaters.
The water of Lake Huron's Georgian Bay and North
Channel is gin-clear, and the anchorages among the pink
granite islands are a summer playground for Great Lakes
boaters. In the Benjamin Islands boaters tie to the rocks
and trees and to each other's boats; forming huge rafts.
There, they swim, and eat, and become brown as nuts.
The Walleye and Pike fishing there, is as good as it gets
anywhere in the world.
After you cruise the Great Lakes, the inland rivers
southward from Chicago offer gracious waterways, the
towns along the shore will tempt you for a dinner out...
And then, there is the land of trees and lakes and rivers
and anglers. As you cruise south on the Great Rivers you
will spend a lot of time rubber-necking at other boats,
people, sites and funky looking fish camps. You will
probably detour a little, and head east on the Ohio as far
as you can go, and then west on the Missouri. Then, back
down the Mississippi where you will find some great
anchorages on the Cumberland and the Tennessee rivers
with fascinating places to visit; Nashville on the
Cumberland, Chattanooga, and Knoxville on the
Tennessee. On the rivers themselves there are a
thousand buoys and markers, and yes, even more locks,
and bridges that have to be raised. There are narrow
channels, big rivers and sounds as big and exciting as
many of the lakes. It's exciting, and fun, but most of all...
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