Sarnia and The St. Clair River Stuck in the mud We spent a quiet day anchored out in the Sarnia Yacht Club basin. Barry did an oil change on our diesel. He also walked over to Bridgeview Marina to order seals for our ailing water-pump. They are to be shipped to our London address and hopefully we can get them as we pass down Lake Erie. The next morning we found ourselves in a precarious situation while motoring down the St. Clair River. Our engine began over-heating so we turned it off and hoped that the current would carry us to a sheet-piling wall along the side where we could tie up and repair the problem. But, regretfully, we ended up going aground instead. So there we sat, stuck in the mud, with an over-heated engine, in air that reeked (chemical valley). Once the engine problem was repaired (how do people get around who don't have a mechanic on board?), we were fortunate to receive the assistance of a sailboat and a power-boat (with a 150 horse power motor) to set us free of the St. Clair river mud. We passed our first freighter - the Algorail out of Sault Ste. Marie just as we entered Lake St. Clair at 1700 hours. The current in the river was l.5 knots with us. We were motoring at 5.5 knots yet the GPS read that we were making 7 knots headway.