A Family Boating Cruise from San Diego, to Milwaukee, trhough the Great Lakes, Trent-Severn Canal, Erie Canal, ICW, Florida, the Bahamas, and Beyond

Indiscipline Cruise 2000
Lake Ontario

Lock 45, Our First Lock

Picton was one of our first stops after Trenton and Belleville.   While neither of those places was much to write home about, we loved Picton and stayed for a long and much deserved rest.
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Hey, How Does This Thing Work?

The Prince Edward Cruising Club in Picton was one of the most friendly groups of people we have found.  I don't know how to describe it except it is not a marina, it is a club, but that we were as welcome as if we had stayed there for the last 10 years (like many of the boats you see in this picture).  We shopped and fished and rested and swam and joined the locals in a bring-your-own meat barbeque.
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Lock 45 From the Top

After too short of a stay, we headed onto Kingston.  The run was so long and calm I was able to sit and read at the helm.  It seemed like it took 2 hours to pass this power plant and the nuclear plant just beyond.
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