This Trailer explains what has happened in the past season of Cruising Off Duty and what is coming up in our short and long term future. The future is exciting with things like an upcoming BVI catamaran charter, our next season sailing in the 1000 Island...
With winter coming, I have to take every opportunity to practice using my new Mavic Pro. This episode, I go to Pakenham Ontario to try and take some scenic shots of the stone bridge in this small town outside of Ottawa. Since the filming of this footage...
Last Episode was mainly about how the Mavic Pro would handle and fly compared to the Q500 and the Phantom 3. This episode is more about how much range you can get with this new Ocusync technology and how good the Camera looks.
The speed, range and compac...
I finally got my new drone. The Mavic Pro. This episode is about my first flights and my first impressions. My first flight ever was in my house, where I crashed it. My first flight outside was where I met a friend who has the Phantom 3 and we compare...
In this episode I am going to ask myself the question, "Should I really own a Cruising Motorcycle and a Cruising Sailboat?". The problem for me has been that you only ride your motorcycle on a warm dry day and those are the same perfect days that you also...
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 10...
This is the final part in our series comparing the various Catamarans at the Annapolis Sailboat Show. In this episode, we focus on the "boutique" or custom boat builders that are designed with the live-aboard in mind. We looked at the Xquisite X5 50', th...
In this episode of Cruising Off Duty, we continue showing you the Catamarans that were at the 2016 Annapolis Sailboat Show and telling you what we liked and didn't like. We cover Catamarans from Leopard, Bali and Lagoon. In the next episode we will go o...
In this Episode of Cruising Off Duty, we continue our coverage of the 2016 Annapolis Sailboat Show. This episode we show you all of the Catamarans from Nautitech and Fountaine Pajot. We talk about what we liked and didn't like about each boat, asking our...
Did you miss going to the Annapolis Sailboat Show? Well, we did the 9+ hour drive from Ottawa to Annapolis and in this VLog we will take you on the trip with us. After having a very long drive filled with construction delays, unexpected detours onto tol...
We tried to go out and get one last weekend on the sailboat but the weather just isn't cooperating. Clearly winter is coming. It sucks to be a sailor in Canada and have such a short sailing season. So this episode is going to go over the Pros and Cons o...
Fellow Ottawa Youtuber Simon from the Channel "Finding Simon", who lives and travels full time in a Camper Van, is considering giving up that van life and travelling the world by sailboat. In this episode, I take Simon out and show him the ropes and hopef...
Did you miss the Tall Ships Festival in Brockville? Don't worry, we have you covered. We stood in the lines for you. Watch this and you will see everything there was to see. Watch to the end to see the view from the air too, which is probably something...
Trying to take advantage of every possible weekend on the boat we can before the season comes to an end. We braved cold and windy conditions to spend the weekend at Pinhey's. This episode is in the VLog style. Last episode was all about information and...
In Episode 12, I continue my series on the Pros and Cons of the various anchorages on the Ottawa River by covering the most popular anchorage on the river, Pinhey's Point. For 94% of my subscribers and viewers that are not Canadian and not from Ottawa, I...
Only have the Monday of a Long Weekend Off Duty? Wife is out of town and you are alone? Doesn't matter. Don't let a beautiful day go to waste! In this VLog, I go out on the boat and catch the tail end of the weekend end of the weekend and have have a g...
In this episode of Cruising Off Duty we show you our favorite anchorage to go to shore and get some exercise. That Anchorage is in Constance Bay. In a perfect world we would like to get 10,000 steps in a day. That is almost impossible if you stay on you...
In this Episode, I give you the Pros and Cons of Aylmer Island as an anchorage. I am covering the various anchorages starting at the closest anchorage to the Nepean Sailing Club and going to the furthest. Be forewarned that I am not a fan of Aylmer Islan...
This Episode I talk about the pros and cons of Crystal Bay as an anchorage. I explain that thousands of sunken logs from the logging days 100 years ago, is the reason that the Ottawa River is brown and I show that sometimes when you pull up anchor, you ma...
This Episode of Cruising Off Duty covers the NSC party at Baskin's Beach. A good time was had by all, but a Boy drown just up river from where all our boats were anchored to attend this party. Then on our sail home, we watch a house on shore erupt into f...
Working shift work means I have days off when no one else does, so I sail the Ottawa River solo a lot. So how hard is it to sail alone? I will show you in this episode. You will follow me as I pack up the boat and sail towards a planned NSC party at Bas...
This video will show you, through time-lapse video and drone video footage, how much work was required for our sailboat to go from being under its winter cover to ready to sail. It gives you Drone footage of the Nepean Sailing Club when all of the boats ...
The Ottawa River has over 1000 sailboat boats registered to the 4 different Yacht and Sailing Clubs, but we are landlocked by the Deschene Rapids to the south and the Chat Falls Hydro Electric Dam to the north. In essence we are on a 27 mile long lake. T...
Why a Cruising Sailboat (Floating Cottage) is better than an actual cottage. Plus I give you a tour of Off Duty and why it has everything a cottage has but for much cheaper and with less problems.
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