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Position: 41°46’10.8″N 70°33’49.6″W
A short video of our transit of the Cape Cod Canal. We woke early in the morning to catch the tide and the handy four knot current that would boost us on our way. There’s no big trick to transiting the canal – just have a pretty boat, a powerful engine, and a whole lot of patience when you reach Cape Cod Bay – there’s a thousand yahoos out fishing and you’re only in their way.
If you do it right it is boring. I imagine that if you get caught going against the tide it can be very frighting. fun that you got to do the transit after all those trips over it.
Mike we had a very similar vacation routine.
We would drive from Peoria to vacation on the Delaware shore. when we were going over the Chesapeake Bay bridge we knew we were there.
Traditions are so important for kids (and parents)!
But when will you do the night passage of the Canal? The “streetlights” make it easy in the land cut, and the numerous lighted buoys get you through the Hog Island Channel. But the lights on the highway bridges can look weird. If you do that and tuck into Marion at night, watch for little green lights on the private-aid cans in the inner harbor.
After leaving Marblehead in the fog, the idea of transiting the canal in the dark is truly scary!
Love that they’ve put plaques on all the house telling you the year it was built, for whom, and what the owner did for a living.