All hands-- Ben Gray emailed me to report that Idlewild is now in Hay River on Great Slave Lake. Soon, the transit of the mighty Mackenzie River will begin, with grandchildren Ryan, 8, Scot, 6, Mikayla, 7, and Trenton, 5, aboard the aluminum yacht. Hay River, in the Northwest Territories, is reachable by road from Alberta when the Grays live. At some 1,100 miles, the Mackenzie is the longest river in Canada, flowing into the Arctic Ocean, specifically the Beaufort Sea, where Idlewild's transit of the Northwest Passage will begin. http://www.aquatic.uoguelph.ca/rivers/mac1.htm http://www.greatcanadianrivers.com/rivers/mack/mack-home.html >Thus far, the crazy Canucks have pulled and pushed the 15-ton >Idlewild over two difficult portages, 10 miles on the Peace River >around the Vermillion Chutes and 13 miles on the Slave River. I neglected to mention that Idlewild had wheels welded on for the portages, wheels that were removed at Fort Smith after the portage on the Slave. For earlier posts and news, go http://lists.samurai.com/pipermail/passagemaking-under-power/2005-June/001238.html http://lists.samurai.com/pipermail/passagemaking-under-power/2005-June/001216.html http://lists.samurai.com/pipermail/passagemaking-under-power/2005-June/001212.html http://lists.samurai.com/pipermail/passagemaking-under-power/2005-June/001210.html http://lists.samurai.com/pipermail/passagemaking-under-power/2005-June/001206.html http://lists.samurai.com/pipermail/passagemaking-under-power/2005-June/001204.html http://lists.samurai.com/pipermail/passagemaking-under-power/2005-June/001203.html --Georgs Georgs Kolesnikovs Your host at Trawlers & Trawlering, formerly Trawler World, since 1997