Author: Igor

For fixing some problems with the boat’s engine and meeting the old friend, we visited the Portsmouth Olympic Harbour in Kingston, where sailing events of the 1976 Olympic games happened and enjoyed watching the CORK regatta. Also, we installed the Iridium satellite communication hardware, which was generously presented to us by MetOcean Telematics (Halifax, Canada). Thank you, MetOcean!

The next day we spent in the lovely Prescott marina, drying our clothes and wetting our instruments. Here is a plot of temperature and specific conductivity data in the marina:

Navigation on the St.Lawrence River requires not only knowledge of navigation and helmsmanship in difficult river conditions with a current of up to 5 knots, but also endurance when a huge vessel passes by you in the narrow channel of the Seaway, specially built in 1959 for the passage of ocean vessels to the Great Lakes.