ITINERARY: GEORGIAN BAY / NORTH CHANNEL
GEORGIAN BAY
Below is a sample of our Georgian Bay North Channel Bareboat Charter Itineraries.
The Week-Long Bareboat Charter (or longer) on Georgian Bay allows for exploration of the famous 30,000 Islands area from Midland up to Parry Sound and beyond. Bareboat Charter guests can choose between a blend of open water sailing and navigating through the scenic Small Craft Channel. The well-marked Small Craft Channel offers hundreds of protected anchorages along its route. For the real adventuresome types, one itinerary would have charter guests sailing open water to the northern end of Georgian Bay to the Bad River Channel anchorage. Here, charterers can experience breathtaking scenery and explore, with the dinghy, over 100 Miles of tributaries and rapids that are part of the mouth of the French River.
NORTH CHANNEL
Since the East end of the North Channel, at Killarney, is 120 Miles from Midland, the distance makes it prohibitive to cruise the Channel with any of our bareboat charters unless they booked a ten day or two week-long charter.
COSMOS is offering bareboat charters to the world renown North Channel cruising grounds for charters that are ten days or longer. The cruise would depart and return to our charter base in Midland at the south end of Georgian Bay. Advance reservations are required.
COSMOS is also offering Week-Long (or longer) bareboat charters that begin and end in the North Channel. Some points of charter departure and arrival for bareboat charter guests could be Killarney or Little Current, Manitoulin Island. The charter cruise would start and end at the same location in the North Channel. COSMOS will deliver the vessel to the departure location prior to the beginning of the charter and deliver the yacht back to the Midland, ON charter base after the bareboat charter has concluded. Repositioning of the yacht fees will apply.
A Week-Long bareboat charter in the North Channel involves sailing some of the best fresh water cruising grounds in the world.
Manitoulin Island, the largest fresh water island in the world, is a natural break wall creating a unique long strip of water in between the Island and the mainland’s picturesque north shore. This relatively quiet and protected body of water stretches 70 nautical miles, from Killarney in the east to Thessalon in the west. The well known cruising grounds, generally referred to as the “North Channel” proper, occupy 40 of those 70 miles and are predominately in the east-end of the Channel.
Many cruising yachts, from USA and Canadian waters, travel every year to these idyllic islands where excellent protection is available for anchorages while enjoying breathtaking panoramic views. The famous Benjamin Islands Group is composed of pink granite, as opposed to the white quartz mountains to the north, and the limestone of the lower, surrounding islands. To the north, the very ancient La Cloche Mountain range stretches for miles of pristine solid white quartz mountains dotted with evergreen and deciduous forests.
Baie Fine is one of the North Channel’s finest attractions. It is a 10-mile long fiord, the only one of its kind in North America. As you sail down this fiord, you are amazed by the majestic and steep white quartz mountains that create both sides of this natural wonder.
The North Channel has many a sunken wooden ship for diving enthusiasts who want to explore these underwater treasures.
Extending or shortening stays at particular anchorage locations is always possible. Weather may limit choices for overnight anchorages and such decisions are always made by the bareboat charter crew with safety first in mind. For those bareboat charter guests that would prefer to do more sailing, that is entirely possible – it’s up to them!
Other spectacular anchorages with breathtaking scenery in the North Channel are Croker Island, Fox Island, Hotham Island, Landsdowne Channel, Covered Portage Cove, and Bear Drop Harbour to name a few. To inquire about booking a Bareboat Charter in the North Channel, contact us.