How sailing can help with the ocean data collection
On the third day of our motor-sailing St.Lawrence River we reached Montreal! 90miles of turbulent river, 7 locks, 3 drawbridge were passed. The last two locks of Seaway, Cote-St.Catherine and St.Lambert were passed just before approacing Montreal. There is smog in the Quebec, resulted by continious fires on the North. We docked in the Longueuil Marina, just across the river to the Port of Montreal.
More miles, bridges and locks were passed. One of desired colours of light was green, especially on entry of locks and drawbridges. Today we passed two Canadian locks (Upper and Lower Beauharnois) with 40ft level drop and 2 drawbridges with 40m bridge’s rise. The end of the second day was on the mooring with a nice sunset view. The colour of the light was acceptable red!
After two months of work preparing the sailboat for a voyage, packing our house, and instruments for measurements, finally, the day has come – today, the 16th of July we set sail from the Crysler Park Marina on a long voyage. Hurray!!!
At the first stage of our voyage, we must pass the St. Lawrence River, with all its locks, past Montreal, Quebec City, the Saguenay River, Gulf of St. Lawrence and reach our first goal – Nova Scotia.
Great help in the preparation of the boat was done by Steve, who saw us off, and Frank, who is sailing with us – many thanks to both, dear friends!
Also, my big thanks to the RBR’s staff Ariel, Jon, Tekai, and Minh to help with the last-minute updating of my CTD with the Tridente sensor! You made it!
Thanks to the Crysler Park Marina for keeping us over winter and almost two months in the dock!
Thanks to The Chandlerry staff, for helping us with purchasing equipment and providing a good discount!
Thanks to our family and friends for supporting us all this time!
