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| A forlorn looking lake freighter, sister ship to the Edmund Fitzgerald, passes us on Lac-Saint-Pierre while being towed by two tugs. |
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| The Edmund Fitzgerald before she went down on Lake Superior November 10, 1975 along with her crew of 29. "Does any one know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?" -- Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot. |
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| The Detroit Express is 750' long and displaces 82,000,000 pounds. Nellie was going to claim the right-of-way but then sanity set in... |
Between Trois-Rivières and Quebec City Nellie stayed between the channel markers as the river shallows quickly outside of them. The same hasn't been true south of Lac-Saint-Pierre where there's plenty of depth outside the markers. This has several advantages. First, we can put more space between us and the big ships. Second, it allows us to treasure hunt for counter currents which are normally found near the river's banks. I can't say we found a lot of treasure though. All day we turned RPMs for 8.5 mph but only averaged 6 mph. What the heck, the scenery is pretty and we're not in a hurry.
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| At anchor off of Contrecoeur, Quebec. |
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| 48 miles from Trois-Rivières, Quebec to Contrecoeur, Quebec. |
Thirty miles northeast of Montreal, behind a long island on the southern shoreline of the St. Lawrence, is the quaint little village of Contrecoeur, Quebec. Nellie is anchored just off the village in 17' of water. A gentle current keeps us pointed upstream. DBH
