June 4, 2025
The Erie Canal – An Extraordinary Waterway
The ‘towpath’ near Pittsford is popular with cyclists….
April 22, 2025
Pet-Friendly Staycruising in Ontario
Apr 24, 2025 Looking for an unforgettable dog-friendly…
April 8, 2025
TRIPPING Series Returns with Immersive Ride Through Muskoka Lakes
Apr 10, 2025 Photos: Good Earth Productions The popular…
April 8, 2025
St Lawrence Seaway Opens Soon
Apr 10, 2025 The Seaway System is about to open for ano…
March 6, 2025
Destination: Trent Severn Waterway ONE MORE TIME!
By Greg Nicoll Photos by Andy Adams and friends Just wh…
February 11, 2025
Caffeinated Adventure: Lake of the Woods Coffee Boaters Explore Cuba
Jeremy and Linda visit Havana yacht club Feb 13, 2025 b…
November 19, 2024
Dockside Dining: The Port Tavern, Thornbury, by Celebrity Chef Mark McEwan
Credit: McEwan Group. By Mathew Channer Nov 21, 2024 Di…
October 16, 2024
Two Weeks in the Sea of Cortez
By Zuzana Prochazka A getaway-from-it-all charter strip…
August 6, 2024
Dockside Dining: Frind Winery
Aug 8, 2024 I’m a boater – I always take friends and vi…
July 23, 2024
Dockside Dining:The Waubic – By Boat Only!
July 25, 2024 With Glen Blake When you are a boater, th…
June 17, 2024
Paving the Way to Cleaner Boating – How a Commitment to Reducing our Environmental Impact is Inspiring Cleaner Boating in Ontario
Over the past seven decades, Ontario’s marina industry has developed alongside some of Canada’s largest freshwater lakes. Boaters have been able to enjoy the beautiful scenery and create lasting memories on the water, with certain marinas dating back to the 1960s.
June 17, 2024
Rediscovering my boating backyard
Undoubtedly the best part of my job is that I get to explore different waterways and communities all over North America and, as you may have seen in Season 2 of Water Ways, even the South of France and its historic Canal du Midi.
May 30, 2024
Cruising Georgian Bay’s 30,000 Islands: Canada’s Freshwater Paradise for Boaters
It’s a beautiful morning as we perform our pre-departure checklist, fire up the engines and prepare to release our lines. And if the long-range forecast of very low winds coupled with plenty of sunshine holds, that’s exactly what we need for the areas we plan to explore on this trip!
May 21, 2024
Discover the Boating Community at Humber Bay Park West
May 23, 2024 Annual Open House Saturday, June 1st, 2024…
April 8, 2024
Destinations: Bayfield Marine Turns 40 with Big April Events
Ron and Pat Reder started out in October 1984 across the road from where they are right now on the Bayfield River just outside Bayfield ON.
February 20, 2024
Peter Island Resort in the British Virgin Islands has Reopened
Feb 22, 2024 Peter Island Resort in the British Virgin…
January 2, 2024
Telegraph Cove—from Resource Community to Tourist Delight
Telegraph Cove is a small indent situated on Johnstone Strait in the Salish Sea, 15nm southeast of Port McNeill and near Robson Bight, famous for its orca-rubbing beaches. The village has experienced many iterations with a long history—the harbour once served as a summer camp for the Kwakwaka’wakw who fished and hunted here beginning about 8,000 years ago. Many of their descendants still live in the area.
October 11, 2023
Serious Fun at the St. Maarten Heineken Regatta
The St. Maarten Heineken Regatta is one of the world’s best sailing competitions and the largest regatta in the Caribbean. The event includes four days of world-class racing and four days of world-class partying.
September 12, 2023
Cruising: Nautical Safari to Tanzania, 2022
In October 2015, I purchased a Richard Woods Elf 26 catamaran in South Africa. But it wasn’t until 2017, after a major refit in Gordon’s Bay, South Africa that she was delivered to Watamu, on Kenya’s Indian Ocean North Coast. That voyage took some three or four months of sailing over a period of almost nine months.
July 26, 2023
NEVER THOUGHT – 10 Days in French Polynesia
It was getting late in November and Georgian Bay was lo…
July 11, 2023
Destinations: Peachland Yacht Club on Okanagan Lake
Peachland Yacht Club (PYC) is located on Okanagan Lake…
June 16, 2023
Top 10 Canal-side Patios on the Rideau Canal
Spending time on the water is a natural appetite booste…
June 6, 2023
Cruising: Lake Huron’s Lee Shore
Mark’s full story appears in the June issue of Canadian…
February 7, 2023
Inside the Peterborough Lift lock
Last summer Waterways TV debuted with host Steve Bull’s tour of Ontario. In this episode Parks Canada’s Chad Buchner takes Steve behind-the-scenes of the world-famous Peterborough Lift Lock (the world’s largest) and even lets him ‘drive’ it. Understanding this technology is not quite as much fun as boating it, but it will have to suffice until spring!
November 29, 2022
A Taste of Superior: The East Shore
Our 2020 cruise in the North Channel was too good for a one-off, so, when a career move provided downtime in summer 2021, we sailed north for more.
November 22, 2022
Gordie Howe – Bridging the Detroit River
I sail on Lake St Clair. Michigan is on one side of the lake, and Ontario is on the other. My sailboat is winter-stored 23 miles away, downstream on the Detroit River. Similarly, one side of the river is USA, and the other Ontario.
October 25, 2022
Cruising: Desolation Sound the Summer of Yes!
The bright summer sun forces its way through magnificent Arbutus trees as I dive off our pop-up-dock finding reprieve in the 80 degree F waters. Sharing the water with a friendly seal as brilliant star fish and oysters cling to the rocky shores of Roscoe Bay. Am I really in British Columbia?
October 6, 2022
The Other Virgin Islands
I was first seduced by the United States Virgin Islands during a ferry ride from St. Thomas to Tortola to begin one of our earliest British Virgin Islands charters nearly twenty years ago.
July 19, 2022
Kingston Yacht Club Archives Its Sailing Legacy
The Kingston Yacht Club (KYC) celebrated its 125th anniversary in the summer of 2021, in all the conventional ways COVID-19 protocols would permit, as well as one imaginative and progressive way that will serve its members and visitors for years to come.
June 15, 2022
West Side Story
It was the last day of August and we were in Little Current heading south. Our Lasalle winter haul out was still over a month away.
June 15, 2022
In Search of the Perfect Marina
You’ve invested thousands and thousands of dollars into your boat so naturally, you want to find just the right spot for her to live, and where you can enjoy her to the maximum.
May 27, 2022
Cowichan Bay—A Slow-Living Escape to Marine Heritage, Food and Local Artisanry
Cowichan Bay is a waterfront village with a row of shops, artisan products, marine supplies and a variety of places to eat. It also has a delightful Maritime Centre.
April 13, 2022
The Lady-like Atmosphere of Ladysmith
Instant towns have sprung up in the past, especially on the BC coast. In the late 1850s, Victoria grew overnight into a tent city when hordes of prospectors stopped by to provision for their quest to get rich in the Fraser goldfields.
February 28, 2022
Cruising the Rideau Canal
Following the War of 1812, a battle that Canada narrowly won against the United States, the boundaries of Upper Canada were held and the British army realized that the St. Lawrence River was no longer safe as a supply route.