Tuesday, March 6, 2012

How long would it take to get to Toronto, Ontario from Cape Jourimain, New Brunswick?

I have to do this project for school that involves planning a road trip.

By boat, how long would it take to get to Toronto from the NB side of the Confederation Bridge, by way of the Saint Lawrence river? Let's say this boat can go 10 knots fairly consistently. The quickest route is preferable. :)

I appreciate the help...How long would it take to get to Toronto, Ontario from Cape Jourimain, New Brunswick?
This isn't going to be quick and simple. I looked all over and couldn't find a reliable marine travel calculator. I think your best bet is to do the trip in small stages on google maps, using for example Shediac to Miramichi for one stage, then picking another stage from Miramichi to Shippagan, and so on. The trouble with most of these distance calculators is that they give the "as the crow flies" distance, not taking into account that your boat must go around the Gaspe, not directly across it. You may find yourself holding a ruler up to your screen to take distances off it. The good news is that from about Rimouski to Toronto by water is almost exactly the same distance as by road, so once you get there you can use the "as the crow fies " distance and be pretty accurate.



I'm sending a link to a site which might help. It shows ships in transit anywhere in the world, so you can zoom in and get a pretty good picture of how ships have to travel. It's pretty cool in its own right anyway. If you click on the little ship icons, a photo and other info about the ship will show up. It has a distance thing in the lower left corner but note that it's in miles and kilometres so you'll have to convert to nautical miles, for which almost any distance conversion site can be used. Knots is nautical miles per hour, slightly different from land miles per hour.



http://www.marinetraffic.com

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