Down the St Lawrence

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Bluedragon.jpg (39333 bytes) Blue Dragon, a 34ft steel schooner, powers through the St Lawrence chop.

Sailing the St Lawrence between Three Rivers and Tadoussac is all about getting the tide right or you will end up going backwards. You can work it out for yourself from tide tables but every marina,  yacht club or harbour has someone with a useful rule about when to leave to get to a certain destination.
Deer Lake, an 80ft vintage tug. She was specially renovated for the flotilla and was pressed into service several times when engines failed on other boats.

On one occasion she had three boats in tow on the south shore of Newfoundland and took them on a sightseeing tour rather than miss anything.

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dawn.jpg (39611 bytes) Dawn on the St Lawrence
The Newfoundland Flotilla was quite a ham radio event. About 10 boats were ham equipped and we had our own schedule with various maritime nets. We provided a relay service when boats were out of VHF range and handled e-mail for other flotilla boats. We also had a special event call sign, CF3NYC, and made hundreds of overseas contacts.

In the photo, a Quebec ham volunteer is talking boats into Cap A L'Aigle using 2M ham radio.

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