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The Richelieu River leads to a canal then to the Seaway. I had planned to stop in Chambly about 7 miles from Montreal because of the high water on the Seaway. So this was going to be my last day since Chambly was less than 20 miles away.

I packed my stuff one last time. I stuffed my wet tent without ceremony. I did not engage in any sort of serious effort to tie everything securely.

I was quite giddy at the idea of going home. I knew that I was now better acclimated to sailing then to life on Plateau Mont-Royal and wondered about how my return to normal urban life would go.

I got to the canal in St-Jean before noon. I tied to the docks next to the canal and walked to the dock master’s house to ask him how the canal worked. I knew that I had to pay a fee.

When I found the dock master, he looked at me and told me that there would be no payment problem since the locks were closed due to the water level. Everything was still flooded.

I was in the suburbs of Montreal and it immediately it dawned on me that my trip was over.