{"id":14443,"date":"2025-08-28T19:04:27","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T23:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/?p=14443"},"modified":"2025-08-28T19:04:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T23:04:27","slug":"thursday-august-21-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/?p=14443","title":{"rendered":"Thursday, August 21, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Overnight at Lakefield Lock 26
\n44\u00b025’11.8848″N, 78\u00b016’15.9528″W
\nWhat3Words: \/\/\/removed.boggles.trout<\/p>\n

Catherine writes:<\/p>\n

The morning sky is clear and we left Burleigh Falls when the lock opened at 9:00. We traveled through Hell\u2019s Gate, a tricky passage on Stoney Lake that is very narrow but well marked. Wally followed the Navionics Marine Navigation software on the tablet while I use the binoculars to find the red and green navigation markers.<\/p>\n

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Navionics screen on Android tablet<\/p><\/div>\n

He likes the electronics which are very accurate and can plot out our passages in advance, but I like being able to follow the red and green navigation buoys along the way and the cruise details provided in our Waterways Guide Book for the Trent-Severn Waterway.<\/p>\n

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Ports Cruising Guide – An Essential Source of Information<\/p><\/div>\n

The terrain has changed. We are out of the Canadian Shield and there are fewer huge properties. Now there is more forested areas with very pretty cottages and lots of small islands. We come onto Clear Lake which is very wide, and we are outside the 10 km speed limit zone. Wally pushed the engines a bit to make them work harder to improve their efficiency and clean burning. They tick over very well.<\/p>\n

We come to Young\u2019s Point which is a very narrow passage from Clear Lake to Lake Katchewanooka. There is a very sharp turn to the left and we are at Young\u2019s Point Lock which has a rich heritage. Wally chatted with a woman who was standing beside the lock as we were \u201clocking down\u201d. Her grandfather was the original \u201cYoung\u201d in the areas and had a small store there. This summer they celebrated their 200th<\/sup> anniversary of being at the Point!<\/p>\n

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Youngs Point Lock 27 – photo copied from Google Maps<\/p><\/div>\n

It’s an easy passage from there towards Lakefield. We were told the best place to tie up is above the lock. There is an extremely narrow and winding tree lined canal leading up to the lock. When we arrive lock staff informed us that the Kawartha Voyager is coming in a couple of hours to spend night at same lock. They had a reserved space further up the wall so we moored well behind them.<\/p>\n

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Belisama moored well behind Kawartha Voyageur<\/p><\/div>\n

The cruise ship arrives around 5:00 p.m. and passes on our starboard side with about five feet to spare! The captain docked that boat like he was parallel parking a car. Amazing!<\/p>\n

Through the afternoon we hear the cries of one or more Ospreys. I got the binoculars out and finally spotted their nest – high atop a power pole on the other side of the canal. There were at least two in the nest and perhaps some chicks in the nest that we could not see.<\/p>\n

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Ospreys nesting at Lakefield Lock<\/p><\/div>\n

It\u2019s the passengers\u2019 last night aboard. When I walked by on the way to the bathroom later that night, they were whooping it up with some sort of pirate party involving hats and balloons. It makes me think of my mom and dad who took that trip years ago. I hope they had a pirate party too!<\/p>\n

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Kawartha Voyageur moored overnight at Lakefield Lock<\/p><\/div>\n

Fortunately the pirates aboard the Kawartha Voyageur were a pretty tame bunch. I think most of them were in bed and asleep before we were.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow morning we will watch the cruise ship pass down the lock and then we will follow behind them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Overnight at Lakefield Lock 26 44\u00b025’11.8848″N, 78\u00b016’15.9528″W What3Words: \/\/\/removed.boggles.trout Catherine writes: The morning sky is clear and we left Burleigh Falls when the lock opened at 9:00. We traveled through Hell\u2019s Gate, a tricky passage on Stoney Lake that is very narrow but well marked. Wally followed the Navionics Marine Navigation software on the tablet […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2025-cruise-trent-severn-waterway"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ppZJ-3KX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14443"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14456,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14443\/revisions\/14456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}