Sailing Lake Ontario YouTube Videos
Showing 46-60 of 66 results
Get good use out of your sailboat. Learn to sail solo. A must if you work shift work.
In this episode of Cruising Off Duty, I take my sailboat out solo to meet my friends up river at Simcoe Island. If you want to get a lot of use out of your sailboat, then you have to get comfortable taking your sailboat out alone. This is especially true...
“Snake Island” Part 2. Exploring abandoned buildings filled with all sorts of critters. Ep126
Ep126. In this episode of Cruising Off Duty, we continue Part 2 of the "Snake Island" trip. We take our son Jake to an Island we have been to before, Main Duck Island. The Island is obviously a misnomer because we never see any Ducks but you can't go 10...
Sail To The Middle of Lake Ontario. “Snake Island”. If you don’t like snakes, DON’T COME HERE!
Ep125. In this episode of Cruising Off Duty, we take our son Jake to an Island we have been to before, Main Duck Island. The Island is obviously a misnomer because we never see any Ducks but you can't go 10 feet without seeing a snake. That is the whole...
Sailing Episodes Are Back! 1000 Islands. We explore with a new outboard motor ! Ep124
We are back to episodes showing sailing the 1000 Islands. This episode was from the end of last season. Episodes from the Annapolis Sailboat Show and the TransAtlantic Passage seemed more time sensitive so all of the last third of the 2017 sailing season...
Kingston. Our favorite city to visit by boat. Ep85
Ep85. In this episode of Cruising Off Duty we continue our transit across Lake Ontario and head to our favorite city on the water, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Kingston is a very clean and well maintained city and it has transient docks you can use (for pr...
Ep84 Sailing Across Lake Ontario. Pt1. Weird weather!
Ep84. In this episode we head out from Oswego NY to cross Lake Ontario to head back toward our home base near Kingston Ontario. One thing we have learned about sailing out in Lake Ontario is how strange unforecasted weather happens. It could be calling f...
Sailing to Oswego NY and finding out what it has to offer (with drone footage). Ep83
Ep83. In this episode of Cruising Off Duty we sail across Lake Ontario to visit Oswego NY. It was our first time visiting this city and we did not know what to expect or what it had to offer other than it is the city that you go to in order to enter the ...
Ep82. Sackets Harbor. Ghost Town. Like a scene from the Walking Dead
Ep82. In this episode of Cruising Off Duty, we sail to Sackets Harbor NY. It was a very cute looking town but it was freaky how there was no one anywhere in any of the restaurants or any of the stores. It felt like we were shooting footage for the TV se...
Exploring Duck Island (AKA Snake Island), by foot and by drone. Ep80
Ep80. In this episode of Cruising Off Duty, we explore Main Duck Island, which is located in the middle of Lake Ontario. The free docks on the island are something to look forward to because the waves can get pretty big out there, especially if it is bad...
Sailing to Duck Island. “Snake Island”. Seeing if it lives up to it’s name. Ep79
Ep79. In this episode of Cruising Off Duty, we sail out into the middle of Lake Ontario to Duck Island, which has a reputation of being an Island completely infested with Snakes. We are doing this first trip to the Island to "Recon" it to see if it lives...
Biking Wine Country, Cider Tastings. A windstorm drags our boat away without us. Ep78
Ep78. In this episode of Cruising Off Duty we take you biking through Waupoos (Wine Country) and we go to the County Cider Company to do some Cider Tastings. We take the Mavic Pro drone up to get some aerial shots of the beauty of the area, when someone ...
Sailing through a storm to Waupoos. Almost blew out our sails. Lessons Learned. Ep77
Ep77. In this episode of Cruising Off Duty, we sail to Waupoos and look forward to using our new folding bikes to bike through wine country. It seemed like a beautiful day for sailing. 12 knots of wind, right on the beam. Perfect, until a storm that lo...
Sailing the 1000 Islands. Kingston to Kerr Bay on Amherst Island. Ep76
Ep76. In this episode, we explore Kingston before sailing to Kerr Bay on Amherst Island. We explain the best (cheapest) place to dock your boat when visiting Kingston. We show drone footage (Mavic Pro) to explain where the dock is located in the harbor a...
Sailing the 1000 Islands. Cape Vincent, NY to Kingston, ON. Ep75
Ep75. In this episode of Cruising Off Duty, we sail west from Cedar Point State Park (NY) with the intention of stopping in Cape Vincent, NY. But, the town was flooded with the record high water levels, so all the city docks were under water and we ended...