When is Canada going to open border is the right question I think, we cancelled our multi-resort ski passes for this year (deferred more accurately) because we can't make a typical Canada trip to help justify the cost, we have skiied at Tremblant and Blue Mountain (north of Toronto on Georgian bay) the last few years, both within a day's drive of us. Really disappointing, but the current reality..
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DesertAlbin736 wrote: ↑Sat Nov 28, 2020 1:20 pmWell, the way it's been going with COVID lately everything is up in the air for 2021 to say the least. We would still like to do some version or portion of the 700+ miles so-called "Triangle Loop" next year, especially & at least the Rideau Canal. 5,000 miles is a long way to go on a small boat for sure. Ask WillieC about how many miles we did from Blaine, Washington to Desolation Sound, BC. Our record for consecutive days afloat so far is 46, or 6 & 1/2 weeks plus a week on the road each way trailering up & back from Arizona. That's about the time I start to get anxious to return home if for no other reason than we have a pool & landscaping to worry about & pay pool & yard service to have taken care of while we're away. We have come home to minor disasters in the past. Will Canada let Americans back in by next summer? Seems pretty iffy at this point, but who knows. Ontario is having their own problems with COVID. At best Canada expects it'll take until next September to vaccinate the majority of Canadians. And who knows what our vaccine distribution situation will be by next summer.More room for the loop would always be better but the A25 does have some advantages for us on a budget. We are doing parts of the loop each year in our A25. A compost head is great and the electric cooler getting blocks of ice when possible worked well for us. We typically do 3 weeks at a time, stay out of big water if there is any chance of bad weather. With a couple of 5 gal cans of diesel extra, the A25 has a pretty impressive range. Easy to trailer to the next section or even return home each year.
My thoughts are to do a bunch of practice shorter trips to iron out what you can live with and what you must have. 5000miles is a long way in any boat so we like the idea of breaking it up so no one gets that "wanting to just get home" feeling.
So we will have to be flexible with our plans. Doing a full Great Loop was never on our bucket list & still isn't though. There are several alternate options, say a run over to Dana Point, CA for some SoCal harbor hopping between now & March while the annual grey & humpback whale migrations up the coast from Mexico is in progress. Or the California Delta out of Stockton before the heat of summer hits. Or back to the Pacific NW but stay on the US side for the San Juans & Puget Sound if we're still locked out of Canada. Or a late summer/early fall east coast trip to Erie Canal, Lake Champlain, & Chesapeake Bay, trailering between each location. All TBD.
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. We spent 7 months on our Mary Jo, a modified A27FC a couple of years ago, taking her from VA to the Keys and back. We have a couple of short articles on our blog here about ICW Tips