About the Trent
17 June 2016 | Frankford Lock 6
Bill/sunny
A little about the Trent Severn Waterway. It is a series of Lakes, rivers and man made canals that connect Lake Ontario at Trenton to Georgian Bay at Port Severn. It is 386 Kilometers long and includes 45 locks, 39 swing bridges and 160 dams to control the water. If a boat draws over 4ft 7in you must sign a waiver to transit the canal. As Eagles wings only draws 4ft we were good to go. Our cost for a 34ft boat to transit the canal from one end to the other was $158.10. The cost to stay overnight at a lock is $30.60. How long does it take most people ask. That depends on how leisurely a pace you travel at. If you were to travel 24 miles a day and do 4 or 5 locks each day it would take about 10 days. It would take on average 5 hours a day at this pace. Some days and distances between locks are shorter. Yesterday we did 6 locks and 5.5 miles in 3 hours. The waterway raises boats nearly 600 ft from Trenton to the summit of the system at mile 157 at Balsam Lake and then lowers them 263 feet to Georgian Bay.