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As soon as we entered the St. Clair River we got a very nice speed boost from the current and were moving along at 8-9 knots. That’s a considerable improvement over Santosha’s “normal” cruising speed of 6.5 – 6.8 knots. Last fall when I was taking the boat to Goderich my average speed on this part of the river (going against the current) was about 3.5 knots!<\/p>\n
Once we entered Lake St. Clair our speed dropped a bit but we were still making very good time. We encountered the first freighter right at the junction of the river & the lake. It took us about 2 hours to traverse Lake St. Clair & enter the Detroit River. Through the day we took took turns at the helm. Pennie was in charge as we passed by Windsor & Detroit. The Windsor Casino seemed to have a magnetic draw on the boat as we passed by but we managed to escape it. Cheers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 42\u00b059\u203243\u2033 N 82\u00b025\u20326\u2033 W Tuesday was a long day on the water – 9 hours – so we decided to have a slow start from the marina in Sarnia. Pennie whipped up some awesome omelettes for the crew so we would start out with a full tank for the next leg of our journey. By […]<\/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":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2018-rideau-cruise"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ppZJ-1ML","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6867","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=6867"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8258,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6867\/revisions\/8258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nIt also wasn’t long after that when a Canadian Coast Guard helicopter took a close fly past us.
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\nI guess they figured we were ok ’cause they didn’t stop or circle & kept right on going by.<\/p>\n
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\nTraffic on the Ambassador Bridge was very backed up but we pretty much had the river to ourselves.
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\nOur original goal was to make it to the Colchester Marina on Lake Erie but it was becoming obvious that we would have to keep going until 7 or 8 pm so we decided to find another marina on the Canadian side of the Detroit River just south of Windsor at LaSalle.
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\nThis was our last night before we would enter Lake Erie. Our passage from Sarnia was a great day’s journey. Time for some R & R.<\/p>\n