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Cruising Off Duty
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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We will be in Annapolis MD to check out the Annapolis Sailboat show from Thursday-Saturday (Oct 5th-7th). After the coverage we did on our channel last year, going over the various Catamaran at the show, we have been granted Media Passes and will be there to get a good look at the boats on the Thursday Media/VIP day when the crowds aren’t too big. We are bringing all the Tripods and Camera gear to do a better job filming than last year when we had to run though the pouring rain to get to boats and then stand in the crowds inside the boats with our small Vlog Camera to try and film. In those episodes we gave our opinion on what we liked and didn’t like about each boat in terms of it being a comfortable place to call home for the many years we plan to be travelling the world.
This year we plan to do something similar. We will be bringing you episodes giving tours and our thoughts on the various Catamarans at the show. We will probably not cover many of the Mono-hulls as we do not plan to buy one and there are just way too many boats at the show to cover them all. We will also check out the various vendors to see what is new and exciting in the word of boat gear. We will probably watch some seminars and let you know what ones we found informative.
We are curious if you have any questions or areas for us to cover in the episodes we create about the sailboat show, so what better way to get your input than to have a live feed where you can ask us. We are planning to start the live episode on Tuesday Oct 3rd at 7pm (EST).
So get your questions for us ready. Also let us know in the comments if you will also be attending the show and maybe we can arrange a time to meet for Pusser’s Rum!
Hope to see some of you there,
Craig and Janice.
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