Made my last trip down the Welland Canal this year on Burger's new Northland, was a long day we finished at 2 am in the morning and 34 F cold. She is now going to run 1644 nautical miles out the Seaway non stop to Newport weather permitting.She has 44,000 liters of fuel on board and can travel 4000 nautical miles at 9.5 knots. Then off to warm Florida
I'm just so happy to see them deliver a recreational boat as it had been so long. Boating in the cold is one thing, but locking through a canal in the cold would definitely not be something I'd enjoy.
Well, it's now or never to get it South or it's stuck up North for the entire winter. I like the boat. I'd take it over an Asian built (Nordhavn etc. etc.) any day of the week.
Very nice, have a safe journey, amazing how you make that 42m Canadian Coast Guard vessel look small!
The captain just text me at 7 pm tonight and they are at the Iroquois lock on the St Lawrence and has three inches of snow on the deck very bad snow storm and this time of year all the marinas are closed.
I was gonna ask, where do you buy a "yacht" snow shovel! That stuff on the St. Lawrence can get pretty wet and overwhelming for a brush/broom.
