Chambly Fort built between 1709 and 1711

Rapids on the Chambly provided protection for the fort

I scream you scream we all scream for ice cream 🍦

First Chambly lock. Picture taken by lock tender

Manually closing the doors. All these locks are hand operated

This was our position in the locks all day

Chambly

26 giugno 2024, Canada ⋅ ☁️ 81 °F

Today we locked thru 6 of 9 Chambly locks and are docked for the night on the lock dock (with power) in downtown Chambly. The Chambly locks are slow going. We locked thru with two other boats (a 48’ Sabre and a sailing vessel) and it’s tight inside. But the lock tenders are all super friendly. When we asked where we could tie up for the night the tender at lock 7 called and made our reservations. From here we are walking distance to the Chambly Fort and there are two ice cream shops steps from the boat.
A few stats so far: 108 trip days, 81 days underway and 27 idle. Most underway miles in one day 84. Least underway miles in one day 1. Average underway miles per day 34.96. Today’s secchi at dock 1.0 in 2.1 MLeggi altro

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