Georgian Bay is the Best!
We have the Kawartha Lakes 5 minutes from our house. We have Lake Ontario 45 minutes away. We drive 150 miles to our boat. Parry Sound is about 8 miles in diameter, 300 feet deep, and with about 150 miles of shoreline, with many little bays off of it and a dozen islands in it. Winds are fairly constant and waves rarely over 3 feet. You could sail it every weekend for an entire season and never see it all. In fact, we've sailed out of the Sound for six years now, almost every weekend of the season, and still haven't seen it all. When you sail out of the Sound toward open water in Georgian Bay, you sail through a mile wide by 5 mile long entrance that includes a large bay with a crescent white sand beach. The water is usually so clear, you can easily see your anchor in depths to 20 feet and over. Sailing further out, you enter the 30,000 islands. You have to know precisely where you are constantly, you can have 100's of feet of water under you daggerboard, and 10 feet to the right or left, be on a granite shoal. The fetch is 80 miles or more, so waves can kick up quickly. But the wind is so constant, you could set your sails in the morning, and never touch them again for the entire day. Here you could sail a lifetime and never hope to see half of it. It's all freshwater. Clear and clean. It's all Precambrian Shield. Rocky and rugged wilderness with Pines and Spruce with boughs that all submit to the prevailing Westerlies. Wait, what am I doing? No, there is no good sailing in Canada! Stay away! ;-)
