We had a fast and fairly uneventful transit, rafting to a brand new Sabre 43 with a Dynamic Positioning System. DPS controls the bow and stern thrusters and the main drives so you can park with a joystick. If you take your hand off the joystick it just hovers in position. Park near the lock wall and the lines and boat hooks are just a formality until you get too far down in the trench and lose the GPS signal. The other side is that the thrusters may switch on and off unpredictably, creating surface currents to challenge a sailboat coming in to raft. The enormous grey power boat basically just hovered in the middle of the lock with lines slack .
We made it in 7 hours, which may be our fastest ever. Then over to DYC for a free night adjacent to their gas dock. They had by far the highest diesel price we have hit this summer at $2.21 a litre (contrast $1.64 same day at Cobourg Marina where we also get one night free).
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