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As much as fresh water is not overly corrosive, and you don’t have to rinse off before going to bed if you’ve gone swimming, it may not be all it’s cracked up to be, but don’t listen to me, let’s see what the video has to say on this. Incidentally, this video covers from Mobile,…

The river system brings you through the central part of the US via a network of flooded valleys, lakes, canals and rivers, but before it lets you out into the glorious salt water, it twists and turns mercilessly, making you feel as if you are lost a few miles from nowhere.

I enjoyed my 3 days on the Mississippi, but it was my least favorite from a navigational point of view:

I’m not saying I’d go vacationing on the Illinois River (despite the fact that I just finished doing exactly that for about 250 miles), but you can have fun anywhere you want to.

I’m not sure if this one ”worked”, but you’ll never know until you watch it. Either way, it has a happy ending, and audiences love happy endings.

In my experience, the life-lesson of learning not to overstay your welcome is an important one. You have to be able to distinguish between what might be a friendly joke about your presence and a subtle hint for you to leave. And in this vein, while Lake Michigan was very welcoming at first, it got…

I know my wife does not read the intros to our videos, so I will explain that 3 wks ago I was bit in the arm by something in the middle of the night. I happened to be awake at the time, and slapped the offender, then felt that there was something more than just…

So this will wrap up my hard hitting coverage on Georgian Bay. This is a little “scenery-intensive”, so do NOT watch it on your phone!!! Make sure it’s on a computer or TV screen…or maybe a local surround sound theater. Also, sorry that it’s broken into 3 pcs. The GoPro footage makes these files a…

It’s difficult to sum up a month of boating in the Georgian Bay and Northern Channel, so I’ll be uploading some footage of a few cool places where we ‘chilled the most’. Hopefully, you are watching on a computer and NOT a phone, so you get a better feel for our “cinematography”. A couple quick…

It’s not often that you stare into the face of death while hacking around in your suburban US backyard, but in Canada, you roll the dice every time you get out of the dinghy…