Ep21. Big News! We are moving to the 1000 Islands/Great Lakes
We have big news as we have decided to leave the confines of the Ottawa River and move our boat to Kingston. Kingston is located right at the crossroads of Lake Ontario (and the other Great Lakes) to the west and the St Lawrence River and the beautiful 1000 Island area to the east. The St Lawrence continues to run east all the way to the Atlantic Ocean. So as you can see our possible areas to explore is now limitless. We will be able to share our travels with you on this channel through land and aerial videography for years to come. This was a last minute decision at the end of the season and this episode shows why we made the decision and how we had to quickly come up with a new home for our boat and arrange transport of our boat to a storage yard at Iroquois on the bank of the St Lawrence.
If you are a sailor in the Kingston area, please comment below and tell us what your favorite anchorages are, and where we should explore as soon as the season begins again.
This is a very exciting time for Janice and I and we hope you agree that this move will only make the channel better.
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Welcome to Cruising Off Duty. We are Craig and Janice. We love travelling and we love sailing, so we figure the best way to see the world is by sailboat. We presently have a 35' Beneteau Oceanis sloop that we sail out of Kingston, Ontario Canada, which is on Lake Ontario. We have a longer term plan, when we retire in a few years, to sell everything and buy a 40-50' Catamaran and circumnavigate the globe. Craig loves photography along with land based and drone videography and plans to document everything along our travels to share with the world through Youtube and other social media. For now, follow our channel as we show you the beauty of the Great Lakes and the 1000 Islands area of the St Lawrence River. You will also see the steps we take as start narrowing down the Catamaran we think will suit us best as we move closer to our goal of living full time on a sailboat and exploring the world. It should be a journey worth watching.
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