The Great Loop is the circumnavigation of Eastern North America , a continuous waterway connecting inland lakes and rivers with the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway and the Great Lakes .
From the picture you can see there are several ways to cover the loop depending on your interests.
We plan to go up through the Chesapeake Delaware Bay to Cape May . Next are New York Harbor Hudson River . The Hudson Erie Canal , the Oswego Canal Lake Ontario
Here we enter Canadian Waters with Kingston Canada
Now the fun begins as we head to the Trent- Severn Waterway. This waterway is a Canadian canal system formerly used for industrial and transportation purposes and now for recreational and tourism purposes, connecting Lake Ontario at Trenton to the Georgian Bay portion of Lake Huron at Port Severn.
The total length of the waterway is 240 miles, beginning at Trenton, Ontario, with roughly20 mi of man-made channels. There are 45 locks, including 36 conventional locks, two sets of flight locks, hydraulic lift locks at Peterborough and Kirkfield, and a marine railway at Big Chute which transports boats between the upper and lower sections of the Severn. The system also includes 39 swing bridges and 160 dams and control structures that manage the water levels for flood control and navigation on lakes and rivers that drain approximately 7,182 sq mi of central Ontario.Alice and I have been to Lake Huron and Georgian Bay via sail boat in 1995, bring Midnight Star back from the Lake Huron/Macinac race. We could not spend the time neccessary to really see the area, so now we can.
We finally end up at Mackinac Island, MI.
This will be our decsion time. WE have three choices, keep on going and finish the loop, return home via Lake Erie, or put the boat in winter storage and either sail the lakes next year or finish the loop.
