Tag: Naval Whaler

  • Trip Report – 1850s Vintage Trip – Rideau Canal – Jun 2011

    Trip Report – 1850s Vintage Trip – Rideau Canal – Jun 2011

    Rowing 4 days with vintage equipment on a naval whaler through a UNESCO world heritage site and it’s series of locks? Yeah that sounds like a challenge! Several years before, through working with the Scouts, a project was initiated to refurbish two Naval Whalers that had been acquired. With the Rideau Canal, opened in 1832,…