Another visit with Rene & Isabelle! Also: Chambly Canal pics

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A couple weeks ago we helped this enchanting couple finish off a bottle of red aboard their late-model PowerCat in Belleville Ontario.

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When they learned that our float plan was going to have us passing right by their home on the Richelieu River … on our way to Lake Champlain, they invited us to tie up at their dock and use their car or whatever we needed!

We did not need the car to re-provision; but we could not resist the urge to stop to say “Hello!”

Here is a pic of Shellerina at their home / dock today.
They have a beautiful home plus farmland and a timber lot here right on the river.

It was fun to get a 4-wheeler tour.

There was no wine to be consumed today as we all had work to do, places to go, and things to see.

I’m still hoping to get you pics and details of their wonderful newer PowerCat which is “on the market”.

Ray & Shell say “Au Revoir” to hosts Isabelle and Rene for the second time in a month!

Merci Beaucoup Mes Ami!!!

After we left, we successfully made it to Chambly QC’s “blue wall” to be first in line to lock UP to the elevation of Lake Champlain tomorrow! … Perhaps we will even make it back into Etats-Unis waters: at Rouses Point NY.

Just south of them is the St Ours Lock. Then we hit the Chambly Basin where we tied up to the “blue wall” … lined to lock through first in the morning.

This is in the basin looking UP at the first 3 lock chambers. They are a “flight” meaning the gates are shared between the 3 chambers.
The crosshairs are on the 2nd chamber. The gates are shared with chambers 1 and 3. The uppermost gate and the lowermost gate is OPEN, and therefore cannot be seen in this pic.
This is a pic from the TOP in chamber 3 looking down at the three chambers and the Chambly Basin in the background.
This is a typical view along the man-made Chambly Canal. On the left is the Richelieu River with its rapids and un-passable features.

After lock #9 of the Chambly Canal, we have ascended to the elevation of Lake Champlain at St Jean QC. Ten miles to go until US waters in Rouses Point NY.

From Lake Champlain there won’t be any locks until Lock C11 in Whitehall NY.

… Eleven locks of the “C” for (Champlain) series to bring us back to Troy NY, near Albany, and sea level.

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