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Ep10 Getting Exercise while at anchor.  Constance Bay.
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Ep10 Getting Exercise while at anchor. Constance Bay.
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...
Ep9. Sailing The Ottawa River.  Pros and Cons of Aylmer Island.
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Ep9. Sailing The Ottawa River. Pros and Cons of Aylmer Island.
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...
Ep8.  Why is the water brown and what is stuck on my anchor?  Crystal Bay In Focus.
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Ep8. Why is the water brown and what is stuck on my anchor? Crystal Bay In Focus.
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...
Ep7 – Baskin’s Beach Party.  Tragic events.  Live life to the fullest.
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Ep7 – Baskin’s Beach Party. Tragic events. Live life to the fullest.
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...
EP6. Sailing Alone.  How hard is it?  What do you do when things go wrong?
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EP6. Sailing Alone. How hard is it? What do you do when things go wrong?
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...
Ep5. How much work is a sailboat, to go from winter storage to ready to sail.
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Ep5. How much work is a sailboat, to go from winter storage to ready to sail.
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 ...
Ep4.  What Is Stopping Us From Leaving The Ottawa River?
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Ep4. What Is Stopping Us From Leaving The Ottawa River?
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...
Ep 3.  Why a Cruising Sailboat is better than a Cottage.  Tour Off Duty.
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Ep 3. Why a Cruising Sailboat is better than a Cottage. Tour Off Duty.
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. You can follow us on Facebook: Cruising Off Duty Or at...
Cruising Off Duty, Ep2.  What we learned shipping our sailboat by truck.
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Cruising Off Duty, Ep2. What we learned shipping our sailboat by truck.
What we learned when we shipped our sailboat a long distance (North Carolina to Ottawa Canada) on a truck across an international border and what it took to make a saltwater boat ready to be a freshwater boat. Check out episode 1 where we explain what we ...