Sep 26
Travelling the Cape Cod Canal
Posted: under Boats and Boating, Wheeler Images.
Tags: American Dream Photos, boating, Bourne Bridge, Cape Cod, cape cod canal, photography, Railroad Bridge, water
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We don’t go through the Canal very often, in fact we’ve only done it twice. There’s no sailing in the Canal, and making the trip involves some more involved planning since we need to make sure we are not going in the opposite direction of the current, which is impacted by the tides. We only have a 7.5 horsepower engine in our boat…”powering though” is NOT a term we can use. Even with the current, it can take an hour or more to get through the canal, which puts us out in Cape Cod Bay. Since we have the perfectly usable Buzzards Bay nearby, most days we will go sailing there and be perfectly happy.
The photo above was taken on our most recent trip through the Canal. The bridge in the foreground is Bourne Bridge, one of two bridges that connect the Cape to the mainland. The bridge in the background is the Railroad Bridge. When a train needs to cross between the mainland to the Cape, the part at the top is lowered and all boat traffic has to stop at that point in the Canal. I mentioned before some of the commercial shipping traffic that goes through the Canal, even those boats have to stop. Somehow it all works.
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