Glad to have a sailboat when 3 Tornadoes hit Ottawa. First Mavic 2 flight off boat, almost crashes.
April 01, 2019 by Cruising Off Duty | Language: EN Play Time: 00:20:09 | SAILING YOUTUBERS
This is our final sailing episode of the 2018 sailing season. In this episode a lot of unique things happened:
1) We left home during, what we thought was just a heavy rainstorm, only to get to our boat in Kingston to find that 3 Tornadoes had touched down in Ottawa (1 very close to our house) and had done substantial damage and caused power outages for days. This was one time that we were glad to have a sailboat that we could live on if need be. When you own a sailboat you learn to live “Off The Grid” and being self-sufficient by having Solar Power, Big Battery Banks and Inverters to run everything. Although our house was not adversely affected (other than some missing shingles) we were glad to have our boat as a safety net if we did need to find somewhere to live. We were also glad to have a 2Kw generator on our boat that we could bring home to allow us to keep our food from going bad. It was a wake-up call to many to have sufficient dry food and resources to last an extended power outage.
2) This was the weekend that I tried flying my new drone (Mavic 2 Pro) off the boat and, let’s just say the drone did not respond well to flying off a boat and I almost lost it into the St Lawrence River.
3) Something we had never seen before, there was a Cruise Ship anchored in the middle of the river and sending groups of people by tender into Kingston. The really big freighters do not pass in front of Kingston but on the other side of Wolfe Island so having such a big boat anchored in front of Kingston was a first for us.
We mentioned the Annapolis Sailboat Show was coming up but those episodes were produced into videos prior to this episode. If you would like to see a playlist of all the episodes we created at the Annapolis Sailboat Show, you can get there by clicking this link: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL05m1JiLmWT-crWJN-MxxRb1ns5-ushcI
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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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