So here we are – at the end of an adventure that started May 2022 and ended now, August 2023. Totalling it all up, we spent 184 days sleeping on the boat; did a total of 1689 nautical miles; and went through 125 locks. The furthest east we went was Big Rideau Lake on the […]
There are a lot of islands in the Thirty Thousand Islands. There are large islands like Parry, Sandy, Beausoleil and Franklin. These islands are miles long and miles wide. There are many, many small islands that are measured in acres and often home to a summer cabin. Some are protected and their still waters and […]
When we sold the old family cottage on Georgian Bay, we bought Dauntless, our 29 foot Ranger Tug. The decision not to buy another cottage was based on our conviction that there were no lakes in BC to match the variety we had in Georgian Bay. So we bought a boat to explore the Pacific […]
Hangdog Channel is a gnarly, narrow, inner passage on Georgian Bay’s Small Craft Route that is north of Pointe au Baril. It roughly starts at Nares Point and winds in a northwest direction along the coastline for five nautical miles until it meets Alexander Passage, Bayfield. It picks a path through a maze of islands […]
It starts where the Trent Severn Waterway ends and it ends where the North Channel begins – Port Severn to Killarney. It is Georgian Bay’s Small Craft route that winds its way through the Thirty Thousand Islands. One hundred seventy-five miles long, the Small Craft Route runs through clear fresh water, the weathered remnants of […]
Cruising the Small Craft Channel of Georgian Bay.
Just a short recap – we are west coast boaters. But in the fall of 2021, we shipped our 29 foot Ranger Tug from Burrard Yacht Club in North Vancouver to Lefroys Harbour Resort on Lake Simcoe. The goal? We wanted to the boat the canals, waterways and lakes of southern Ontario. Summer of 2022, […]
Our Trawler Travels 