Ep 71. In this episode of Cruising Off Duty. Janice and I take our sailboat, Off Duty, 4.5 hrs West go from Treasure Island to Loyalist Cove. We were getting a quote done by the Marina to have repairs done at the end of the sailing season. It also gave...
Happy Canada Day (July 1st) and we have and extra reason to celebrate this Canada Day. The Crazy Canadian Drone Laws that made it nearly impossible to fly legally in Canada, have been revamped and these new rules are much more reasonable and will allow us...
Ep69 (4K). In this episode of Cruising Off Duty we head west of Kingston and explore anchorages around Howe Island (Beaurivage Bay) and Wolfe Island (Brakey Bay). Janice, who I swear is part Polar Bear, decided that even though it has been cold all sprin...
Ep68. In this episode of Cruising Off Duty, I will be Cruising my Harley Davidson V-Rod to check out a small little town on the Rideau River called Merrickville. Once there I will fly my Mavic Pro drone over the water area and even film a train as it cro...
Ep67. In this episode of Cruising Off Duty, I will be Cruising Off Duty in a different way. Instead of Cruising on my sailboat, I will be Cruising on my Harley Davidson V-Rod. I take a ride on my HD from Ottawa to Pakenham to fly my drone over the rapid...
So sorry for the quality of the first Live Feed. After it was over we saw the final Product on our first attempt and it was brutally choppy. We figured our 10,000 subscriber celebration video had to be better than that. We did a quick Private Test of do...
This live episode will happen on Wednesday June 7th at 7pm ET. This will be a Q&A episode. We have written down a bunch of questions that people have asked us but if you have ones we don't cover, ask them at the live event and we will try and answer t...
Ep66. In this episode of Cruising Off Duty, we do the best we can to make some quick fixes to the boat so we can use it this summer. No boat yards are available to work on our boat for months so temporary fixes are going to have to do for now.
We get ou...
In This episode of Cruising Off Duty, we go to our boat for the first time since the collision and try and get it fixed up enough to allow us to continue exploring the 1000 Islands area of the St Lawrence and Great Lakes this summer.
We get to explore ou...
The Cruising Off Duty channel is on the brink of crossing 10,000 subscribers and when we do, we plan to do a live episode where we answer your questions that we have received from you through YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. You can find us on all social me...
In this episode of Cruising Off Duty, we cover our 2 day trip up the St Lawrence River to our new home in Kingston Ontario. It was something we had been looking forward to all off season and it was suppose to be a filled with the breathtaking beauty of th...
In this episode of Cruising Off Duty, we stick to our plan of putting our boat in the water on May 6th and motor 12 hrs up the St Lawrence River to Kingston. It was cold, it was raining and we consider cancelling the trip, but decide to go anyway and thin...
Having a Sailboat has been something we have never regretted. But owning a sailboat is much more than cruising along on a beautiful summer's day and then anchoring for "Sundowners". There is a lot of work required to take a boat from winter storage to re...
I received a lot of gear and accessories to review while we were away doing our British Virgin Islands sailing trip. I did not want to break up the BVI episodes with gear reviews, so I held off doing this episode until that series was done None of these ...
Ep59. In this episode of Cruising Off Duty, I compare my latest camera purchase, the Panasonic GH5, and its new features with my existing camera, the Panasonic GH4. I explain the features and the differences and then I show you the price difference (abou...
Ep58. In this episode of Cruising Off Duty, Janice and I sit down and tell our viewers what it was like to Charter a Catamaran in the British Virgin Islands. What places we visited that were so good that we would want to go again and what places we would...
Ep 57. In this episode of Cruising Off Duty we cover Day 7 of our Catamaran Sailing Vacation and the last day of our charter. We spend the night anchored beside a very peaceful and beautiful anchorage on Peter Island.
We are all a bit sad that the vacat...
Ep56. In this episode of Cruising Off Duty, we sail the catamaran from Jost Van Dyke Island to Norman Island to visit the Willy T Bar and have dinner at The Pirate's Bite.
The winds were strong and we sailed close hauled and went through some really big ...
Ep 55. In this episode of Cruising Off Duty, we continue with our BVI Catamaran Sailing Charter. This is Day 5 of our week long charter. We move one bay over on Jost Van Dyke Island to go to the beach where the Soggy Dollar Bar is. It was an awesome be...
Cruising Off Duty passed 9,000 Subscribers yesterday! We just wanted to thank everyone for their support and say that we really enjoy bringing these episodes to you. When we break 10,000 subscribers we plan to do a Live Celebration episode, where we will...
Ep54. In this episode of Cruising Off Duty, we continue the Catamaran Sailing series by visiting Jost Van Dyke Island and we stop at a bay that has Foxy's Bar, where we celebrate Craig's Birthday. We did one more snorkel at Monkey Point and the footage o...
In this episode of Cruising Off Duty we take you out on our Catamaran for day 3 of our week charter. We head to Monkey Point which sheltered us from the high winds and we find the best snorkelling of the trip at this anchorage. This was also the most com...
Ep52. This episode of Cruising Off Duty, we take you out on our 2nd day on the BVI Catamaran Sailing Trip where we visit the Bitter End Yacht Club in Virgin Gorda for dinner. It was a bit of a gong show getting there with 6 of us squeezed into a small din...
With Sailing season just around the corner, things are busy. I am having trouble finding the time to edit the episodes I already have filmed. I am looking to my viewers to pass the word to any people that have some videography skills or Editing Skill (U...
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