Exploring Lake Ontario Pt1. Kingston to Belleville. Bay of Quinte
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 ม.ค. 2025
- This is Part 1 of our 3-week sailing adventure around Lake Ontario. In this episode, we leave Kingston and head west through the protected inner Bay of Quinte and Murray Canal Passage.
I love your channel! This summer I am moving from Ottawa to Kingston, to live on a sailboat there.
Very cool! We are at Collins Bay Marina this year. What club are you at?
I follow a number of sailing youtubers. It is really nice to see local people showing off what we have to offer :)
It is a beautiful area but as you can see from the view count, people generally don’t watch unless they see exotic southern locations. It is a shame because there is a lot of beauty up here. Few channels show this area, that is for sure.
Great video. Good to see some sailing.
Thanks.
Great video! Our home port is Cobourg and we try to get up into the Kingston area and Thousand Islands as often as we can!
Looking forward to seeing the rest of your trip!
Thanks. Glad you enjoyed it
Sailed right by my front door twice. Well motored lol I live at the beginning of the murry canal on the Trenton side. Awesome guys cheers
Nice area. But Shallow. I was sticking to the channel for sure. The deepest part was actually inside the canal. Ha ha
@@Bowmans-Woods It is shallow and nice wish I had know your passing could of tossed you guys a few bevies for the trip.Next time !!
Thank you! Was waiting for your Lake Ontario Tour trip. Awesome video, looking forward to next one.
Thanks. Glad to hear it.
You guys should sail Lake Superior, that is such a beautiful lake.
Sorry you weren't able to do the US side, lots of great little ports to visit. I grew up sailing out of Olcott, NY, and have crossed to Toronto a few times.
We have visited a few US town on Lake Ontario in past sailing years (and filmed them) but we definitely plan to do the circumnavigation again and this time include the US side. Hopefully next summer.
Very informative video, may I ask what nautical charts app you use? Thanks in advance.
thanks. Navionics is what we use.
I was coming home from work and you guys past in front of me while on the Glendora Ferry. Thought that boat looked familiar. Next year stop at Waupoos on the lake side of PEC. Safe coves in PEC Bay.
Ha Ha. We now steer clear of these Ferries. They will cross right into your path Every Time. I watch them like a hawk now. ha ha
Hi , i have to take a boat back from belleville to montreal , i want to know how much did take you from kingston to belleville ? And thanks for your video ! Plenty of information
It took about 8-9 hrs based on a 5knot average speed. Get Navionics. It will estimate the time based on what you say your average speed is.
Nice. I live and sail out of Brighton. Nice to see some local footage on YT.
Yes. It is nice.
county cidery in waupoos has amazing cider as well as an amazing restaurant with a thin crust pizza oven.
I am pretty sure that is where we went when we visited.
@@Bowmans-Woods I thought i recognized it but I didn't want to assume. I know there are a lot of options all packed into the same area. :)
Because you said you like T.O, I need to share this recent story in case it helps you or anyone. Maybe a month ago if that, a Cat sailed from Caribbean to the Great Lakes. They had to go for virus testing in Toronto there so had to leave the boat at a marina. Security recommended one stayed on boat but they could not. He said they were not responsible for anything that might happen. So they left, after 5 hours they returned. They left the marina and started heading to Lake Erie to continue up. They starting having troubles and found that while gone, someone had put a wire from one battery to another causing obvious problems. Smoke had already begun and a hole was already burnt in one of the batteries. Gratefully the whole thing didn’t catch fire before it was noticed. I’ve never heard of this happening and I’m pretty shocked. Please check your batteries before departing I guess! 😱
I heard this first hand so it’s not some ‘story’ I heard. Be careful out there everyone. 🙏🏼
That's crazy! What marina?
we have one or two like that around thee UK when sea birds pass their waste it stinks of rotten fish but thats the joy of having these bird choose an island home .
Yes. I am glad, if they have to stink like that, they they choose to live on an island and not around our boats in the harbor. Ha ha
Sandy Cove (your first anchorage). One of our favorites in Quinte.
Is that what it is called? It was very nice. We would anchor there again. Perfect view of the sunset from there. On the way back we end up tying up to the wall for free in Belleville and went exploring. That was fun as well.
Sandy Cove is very nice. Also excellent holding. Sat overnight in 46 kts and didn’t budge. Nice mud bottom.
What is the depth of Lake Ontario?
If I recall from Navionics there are spots in the middle that are over 400' deep. That is going from memory but I saw some deep areas. Perhaps another viewer can quote the deepest spot. It is deep enough to stay cold until almost July. I know that for sure. ha ha :-)
I was wondering as you said "if any wind at all comes up it generates a great deal of confused nasty waves". I thought shallowness might be reason?
its a shame but there again your safe and free of conorovirus good luck to you both never know shaun might meet you on the sea or picking up a boat ??who knows ??
We always have to be thankful for being healthy. This pandemic shows that you can’t take that for granted.
God help you two.You both suffer from sea sickness.What happens when you get a cat and are in the ocean.
Janice is usually good. As long she does not stay down below trying to focus on doing things when we first leave the dock in waves. Seasickness is an inner ear training thing and you have to stay out in the cockpit looking at the horizon until your inner ear gets use to the movement. Then you can spend more time down below. I am not worried.
@@Bowmans-Woods No horizon at night.
Myth busters tested motion sickness remedies and they found ginger works. So have some ginger tea or hit up the local sushi joint and get some ginger from them,
@@vxnova1Yes there are a lot of so called remedys.might work for 1 in a thousand.best way is to stand on your head so you are looking at horizon the other way round to bring you back in balance.