Tuesday, June 10, 2025

St Jean to Chambly -s the locks with Hal

When I arrived at St Jean on Monday at 1:15, just after the last lockage. They told me I would be first at 9AM.  But I needed a crew to do the locks. I told them that I had a crew coming tomorrow - weather permitting … The forecast was for lots of rain Tuesday.  

They passed a 67 foot power boat about 2PM. He was going to be the 9AM departure on Tuesday I was annoyed that they let him through before me.  They told me that I would be at 1PM on Tuesday since there would be no staff at 9AM.  

I met Palbert and his girlfriend at the lock.  I talked him to come help me through the locks tomorrow.  He agreed to.  I had lots of doubt and concern about him.  I talked a lot and I was not too sure how stable he was.

On Tuesday morning, it rained and stopped about 10:30 and Hal showed up and we chatted and prepared to depart.  The other boat wanted his fenders on the port side so I departed the dock a little earlier to switch my fenders to starboard.  

The lockage went well except at lock 7, a fender got caught against the wall and ripped off the handrail it was attached to hand rail.

At Lock 2, Matin showed up with a dock wheel that I wanted to buy on FB marketplace.

After lock 1, we docked.  We were going to go for a late lunch and met a dock operator and we asked if anyone was driving back to St. Jean and Yve was at 1700.  We had lunch —- a Montreal Pizza consisting a a funny dough with smoked meat and yellow mustard … at $33, it was quite pricy.

After Had departed, I had a beer with Catherine and her crew who was docked in front of BELLUM.

They gave me the shower code for the marina and I had a shower.  

I departed the dock for an anchorage nearby.






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