Exploring Lake Ontario Pt8. Hamilton. Don't judge a book by its "industrial" cover 

My wife and I are really enjoying your channel with our own keen yearning to own a nice 40+ foot yacht and sail the big blue as we near retirement. Loving your tours of the Canadian waters as Canada is at the top of our bucket list once travel is again allowed. Thanks to you both for your excellent content and keep it coming.

Those factories are Stelco and Dofasco, steel factories. My Dad worked at stelco for over 30 years until they shut down the majority of their operations there.

Thank you, loved the footage ♥️🦆 Canada is such a beautiful country. Blessed 🙏♥️

I was expecting to see more of Hamilton as it's where much of one of my favorite TV shows is filmed, Murdoch Mysteries, because of all the historical and cultural buildings that stand in for early 20th century Toronto.

I know what you mean by first impressions- my first posting in Ontario was the drug section in Niagara Falls. As Hamilton came into view, I saw the flaring stacks at the plants and thought “it looks like the opening scene from Blade Runner”. I used to run prisoners to the HWDC, which, like most detention centers, is in a bad area of town. There are some nice areas of Hamilton, but wow, does that city give you a bad first impression! One area many people don’t know about are the escarpment trails behind the city - there are tons of waterfalls and some beautiful scenery. I’ve hiked the Bruce Trail completely around Hamilton down to the US border, and man, is it pretty. The beach in Burlington off Lake Ontario is a nice place to anchor - the kids can swim to the beach, and I used to swim around the boat and scrub the bottom while they played. Cheers, Lance SV Great Escape

Love the channel. By the way the swans are Mute swans, an invasive species. I have a video of a very aggressive one on the Napanee River.

I think that dam is the entrance to Coots Paradise. I think I use to live in the Hammer. Hamilton does have a pretty decent transit system so could you have taken the HSR ( the local transit system ) . That is the hockey arena The First Ontario Center ( a regional bank in the Niagara region) The Hamilton Bulldogs of the Ontario Hockey League play there it use to be the home of the Montreal Canadians AHL team before they moved to Bellville Ontario ( oddly both teams used the Bulldogs name ) .

Hamilton really does look interesting. You got me curious, so I went into Google earth to see where that bay bike trail went. Found some cool stuff. From the grocery you were at - just around the corner on King is a cathedral that, from the pics, would be worth a stop. Following Dundurn street North east to the bay again and you hit Dundurn Castle which really really looks worth a nice long tour of both the house and gardens. A pic showed one of the most beautiful floating staircase i've ever seen, and 2 acres of walled heirloom veg garden - heck yea! Where you turned around at the 'potential' dinghy dock, if you'd gone up the very long stairs you could have taken another bike path back to the city on the ridge top that parallels the waterfront one and it comes right along the front of Dundurn castle. on the back side of that ridge looks like some great hiking paths off Princess Point (!) leading southwest to an Aviary and to the University and all the fun restaurants in any U district. Also near that dinghy dock, it looks like you could go up a level and continue in same direction then Left to the Royal Botanical Gardens Arboretum. It seems Hamilton has much more than I ever thought! There appear to be lots of bus stops, so this may be a good city to look into short term bus passes if you want to get around. Even Princess Point has a stop - but the RBG's stop looks quite a ways off - maybe a good spot to have bikes. Thanks for showing this areas from a perspective most of us don't get a chance to see. I've driven by / thru Hamilton and never gave it a second look. Knew the Bruce skirted it, but didn't realize just how close it came or that it was actually a pretty section!

Would have liked to see Port Credit and Niagara on the Lake. Maybe on your way back?

Frugal... Those transient marina fees can be a kind of a shock. I paid for one night in a marina just to leave the boat and drop my family off at home. (3hr one way) One night marina fees is pretty good considering I spent a total of 6 weeks on Georgian Bay this past summer. Social distancing at it's best.

At night you can see flames shooting up from the smoke stacks in those factories. Steel / Aluminum Foundries.

You need a new mainsail tri- radial and it will perform and go in and out nice . Your sail is stretched and will jam . I have the same boat and have done just over 8 knots with new main an kiwi prop

Hello Craig. Just found your channel through Captain Drone. thanks for your videos they a great to watch. We are boats and looking at drones.. My question is what type of drone are you using these days on the boat and if you was going to purchase a new one today what would be your choose or would you stay with the same?... thanks love the videos.

You mentioned the folding bikes. We would like to know what brand? We are having a boat built in Washington state. Hopefully the border will open soon. Our delivery is near Christmas. Thank you Mitchell and Pilar

Love your channel and wish there was more. New to sailing and beginning to discover our waters

Hey there, just came across your channel and subscribed. We are out of Whitby and also boat Lake Ontario. We have a channel called "Cruising Wild Child" documenting our adventures.

Hamilton often gets a 'bad rap'; however, it is a centre of major academic, health and connecting hub for Cargo Jet operations and other transportation. Home of McMaster University, Mohawk College and Hamilton Health Sciences.

Are you going to port deluce.

Looks like a typical steel plant.

Normally I'm not too pedantic, but you said this a couple of times in this video. The swans are mute swans, not trumpeter swans - European invaders, like starlings and house sparrows. They are pretty, and I don't sweat about them too much, but they don't belong here, and they do destroy shoreline. Not to be encouraged(and I know you were never encouraging them.)