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Exploring Lake Ontario. Kingston through the Bay of Quinte & Murray Canal to Cobourg. 

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We show you how you can go west along the north shore of Lake Ontario into the prevailing westerlies and enjoy a comfortable ride by taking the protected "inside passage" also known as the Bay of Quinte and the Murray Canal. If you go the outside passage from Kingston toward Toronto by open Lake Ontario, you may find it a rough ride if the winds are strong. Plus there are not many sheltered anchorages on the outside passage.

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27 июн 2022

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@mikejones1957
@mikejones1957 Год назад
Glad to hear that you are close to retirement. I retired in March, bought a Tayana 48 in April. I am waiting out a year in Mexico then bringing it back up through San Francisco to refit it
@jocelynvallieres9266
@jocelynvallieres9266 Год назад
This was fun to watch! I used to live in Belleville, Toronto and went to Queens U - sailed Lake Ontario a lot. thank you for bringing back great memories.
@Bowmans-Woods
@Bowmans-Woods Год назад
Glad to bring you back.
@damian33dc
@damian33dc 2 года назад
Glad to see both of you are still kicking 🙂
@Bowmans-Woods
@Bowmans-Woods 2 года назад
Thanks Damian. We are still kicking. :-)
@chrisstephen4563
@chrisstephen4563 2 года назад
Nice to see you guys again
@Bowmans-Woods
@Bowmans-Woods 2 года назад
Thanks Chris. Better late than never. :-)
@mariarusso1325
@mariarusso1325 Год назад
Hi Chris how are you doing 😊
@bkesler1953
@bkesler1953 2 года назад
Nice to see you guys out on the water again, my wife and I sail out of Newport which is between Hamilton and 50 point . a nice little spot to overnight is down here is into Hamilton but had you gone right to the back of the bay, Carol's point you would have seen a very isolated and quiet little Anchorage, the end of James Street it's all getting built up now with all the new services and docking it's going to be beautiful ,a lot of the steel mill is torn down now. If you get a chance even if you're driving check into the end of James Street to Pier 8 to Williams Coffee Pub they have a roller skating rink and on a Friday night it gets pretty Lively Hopefully we'll see you out in a boat our boat's name is "tangaroa" CS 33 ,cheers
@Bowmans-Woods
@Bowmans-Woods 2 года назад
Cool. Thanks for the heads up. In an upcoming episode we anchor in the quiet end of Burlington-Hamilton bay. Went to shore with our PEVs and explored around. It was nice.
@allynonderdonk7577
@allynonderdonk7577 2 года назад
Hey I wanted to leave a comment about your last published video. You mentioned wanting an electric motor on your sailboat. That they are no maintenance and highly reliable. Well, yes and no in my opinion. I'd like to point out several sailing channels with electric motors: Sailing Uma, Sailing Wisdom, Spoondrifters, and Sailing Saoirse. First our home port is actually Charleston SC. I helped a gentleman install lithium batteries in his sailboat(Pegasus) and an electric motor. This man had a decent 6kw generator to boot. He went out one day to sail to Savannah GA. The man didn't make it ten miles outside the harbor. There was no wind, and he rode the batteries down to a really low level. He started the generator, but they were caught in a current taking them back towards land. The current was stronger than the boat could handle with the depleted batteries and no wind. It was a total insurance write-off. Sailing UMA is on their third electric motor, and third set of batteries. Sailing Wisdom is on their third or fourth electric motor(Electric Yacht brand) and have lost several sets of batteries. They've almost lost their lives(twice) because of the motor not having long enough legs to get them out of trouble. Once when they were far off the coast and their forestay snapped. The motor couldn't get them close enough to land to get them towed in during a gale. He sailed it(with a broken forestay) within 50 miles and finally got someone to come out. The second time they ended up beached(not just grounded ($10k charge)) in Florida. Sailing UMA has lost several sets of batteries and have gone through three electric motors. Fortunately they don't use the motor much and that helps them travel a good distance....but then they actually don't move much in locations. Sailing Saoirse almost lost their lives as well, when their boat developed a crack and their electric motor didn't have the range to get them to port. luckily another boat came to their rescue to help them get patched up a towed in... Spoondrifters have had their motor and using it for like two months, and have spent most of that time in marinas. The most deeply troubling possibility is having your boat borne down on by a hurricane, having no sail, and trying to escape at three knots or no knots with no sun(because the sky is darkened by a hurricane). Then losing your life because you just don't have enough speed to escape. This last scenario is especially true of sailing in Florida and the Caribbean. I spent three months in the Caribbean and spent a whopping $200 on diesel fuel and still have a lot left in the tank. I think Out Chasing Stars(catamaran) said at the Annapolis luncheon we had with them they spent $2500 in two years in their circumnavigation. Pure electric is great for a harbor sailor, but in my opinion it is a potential killer for a long distance cruiser. The big questions you should ask yourself is what is the upfront extra cost of an electric system? How far can we go on electric? How fast can we go on electric? How much of a safety factor do we have in an emergency situation? Does the extra cost of an electric system outweigh the fuel cost over 1 year, five years, ten years??? Is an electric system truly maintenance free or trouble free?
@Bowmans-Woods
@Bowmans-Woods 2 года назад
All good points to consider and look into. You definitely need a very big solar array, huge amount of LIPO4 capacity, large electric motors that can propel you way way above 3 knots and a bulletproof generator that is big enough to give you the range and speed you need to be safe. Not sure about the other channels but I know UMA did a DYI install of a forklift motor. That is not the same as a fully tested marine electric propulsion motor. So I’m not going to depend on their pitfalls as a benchmark as they try to do all their own work on a shoestring budget. There are bound to be problems with that process. Modern dedicated designs for a modern boat is far better than these after market retrofit electric motors that are often undersized for the boat they are pushing. Also unlike uma on a mono. A cat has duplicate motors and systems so if anything goes wrong you should have a duplicate system to allow you to keep going. Clearly technology will progress quickly in this new area of sailboat propulsion. Nothing says in a solar only boat you couldn’t add wind generators or even hydrogen fuel cells to extend the electric capacity too. Lots of room for improvement in the technology. Time will tell. Don’t judge the future harshly by Bandaid solutions from the past.
@allynonderdonk7577
@allynonderdonk7577 2 года назад
@@Bowmans-Woods Uma's second motor was a commercially available electric sail drive unit. It went bad, and they replaced it with a newer model. The forklift motor was actually still kinda functional when they removed it. I still wouldn't be caught out without an electrical source driven by fuel. Even if it is just a small generator. Regardless of the technology advancements the cost is astronomical in the current market for electrical propulsion products . I couldn't justify for instance the extra 60k(a number several months old) over a diesel alternative one cat maker charges for even a hybrid product. If I take my total annual fuel cost and double that and multiply that over 150 times...It would equal the extra upgrade cost of the hybrid engines. So for me and my style of sailing it would take 150 years to just pay for the upgrade cost in the fuel difference.
@SV-DEDICATED
@SV-DEDICATED 2 года назад
First in!!!!!!!!!!!! We're back in business!!!!!!!!!
@Bowmans-Woods
@Bowmans-Woods 2 года назад
LOL. You are the winner. Thanks Roger. Ep#1 of 2021 is out. Just a year late. LOL
@dreid6
@dreid6 2 года назад
Great video. Quick question. How did you manage drone footage in the Belleville/Trenton area with the air force base so close?
@Bowmans-Woods
@Bowmans-Woods Год назад
I Belleville is not close to Trenton so that was not an issue. The shot closer to Trenton was shot from the Murray Canal. I just flew out into the bay and the drone will automatically stop when it gets to the geo fence of the airport. The Mavic brand is very strict on not letting you fly within a certain radius of an airport so you really can’t break that rule
@iainlyall6475
@iainlyall6475 2 года назад
you have this as dated last year(2021). why? never mind, i went and looked back and found the info :-) what's the news on your new boat?
@Bowmans-Woods
@Bowmans-Woods 2 года назад
Did you watch the previous episode? It’s all explained there. We want electric propulsion. That makes the search harder. But until then we are going to live on our present boat.
@kugdi
@kugdi 2 года назад
RU-vid engagement question - I typically watch these on Playstation, which doesn't show comments: does RU-vid account for this at all in their engagement algorithm?
@Bowmans-Woods
@Bowmans-Woods Год назад
It keeps track things like thumbs up to decide if it should promote the video and if you can’t do that then the video just doesn’t get credit for that. It’s not the end of the world because you still get credit for the view but if you’re trying to help channel out, giving the video a thumbs up helps promote it
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