Big Chute to Thorah

Pecan left the Big Chute marina this morning at 8:22am and traveled to the Thorah lock number 40 where made it thru the lock at 6:40pm and tied up to the gray line on the upstream side for the night. The Parks Canada folks allow overnight mooring allow the upstream and downstream seawall in virtually all locks at a price of $0.90 per foot per night. All locks have bathrooms with hot and cold water but no power hookups or showers. Today was the last day the Trent-Severn system of locks operated on its summer schedule--lockage available 9am thru 7pm. After today it'll be the fall schedule--9am to 3:30pm except Sat and Sun where it'll be 9am to 5:30pm.
We pulled into Orillia municipal marina this afternoon for two reasons: 1) to get James an internet access, and 2) top off the fuel tanks. As it turned out, Wifi was freely available but no fuel at this location. At least James was no longer in distress without world-wide-web connectivity. Again, as we've seen, marinas are closing for the season, and the town marina had just closed the day we arrived. Fortunately, internet, power, water and even use of the showers/restrooms were now free for the rest of the year. We happened to dock nearby another small power-trawler type vessel, a Texas-based C-Dory 25 monohull named Wild Blue with Joan and Jim aboard. They've got some extensive cruising under their belts on Wild Blue having cruised West Coast-East Coast-Florida you--name-it. Very nice and informative 'gam' we had. And they were very kind to lend us the cruising guides to the New York canal system should we decide to go that way to the Hudson rather than via the Rideau and Richileau canals. Thanks!




Severn Falls lock with water exited lock thru underwater valve system. As you can see tying up on the 'front' of the blue line means we get a bit of current action. I think we saw only 2 knots of current flowing by but it sure looked more turbulent.


Tied up at the Thorah lock #40 for the evening all by ourselves.