New Georgian Bay Website features Information for Yachting
and Boating
Ontario based web marketing company, announces the launch
of their new comprehensive Georgian Bay Region yacht directory
web site. Boating Georgian Bay (http://www.BoatingGeorgianBay.com)
will be a one stop resource for all things Georgian Bay and
contain invaluable information, tips, reviews and guides for
Georgian Bay area boaters and for visiting yachtsman from
around the world.
Georgian Bay's 30,000 Islands and the North Channel boating
region is considered to be one of the top cruising destinations
for yachts in the world. Rated up with the Caribbean Islands
and the Greek Isles, Georgian Bay attracts yachts from the
Great Lakes, Atlantic seaboard and European boats visiting
North America's Great Lakes region. To be sure, the yachting
season is short in this region with the peak season running
mid-June to mid-September. During the warm summer season,
the cruising and secluded anchorages are breathtaking, with
hundreds of sheltered harbours, protected inlets and fiords
with towering pink granite rock islands, dotted with windswept
pines that exemplify remote Canadian wilderness cruising.
To compliment the remote and secluded harbours, there are
many ports of call, towns, villages and cities that offer
safe docking, provisioning, marine services, great restaurant
and each port has its own unique history and nautical character.
"There are bits and pieces on the web regarding yacht
tourism in the area but no directory that covered all the
bases from weather, marina facilities and services to ports
of call, restaurants and local history," says Mark Coles,
the owner of First Page SEO. "We were surprised that
given the stature of the 30,000 Islands and North Channel
in the global yachting community as being one of the top few
cruising destinations in the world, that there was so little
information available as a resource for boaters visiting as
tourists," adds Coles.
Boating Georgian Bay (www.BoatingGeorgianBay.com)
covers everything boaters visiting the area might be interested
in, including things like shipwreck dive sites, favorite anchorages,
marina details, fuel locations, port history and provisioning,
marine and individual port weather, biology of the area and
loads of other information that is really useful to those
planning to cruise in the area for a season or as a permanent
home for their boat.
For larger yachts, over 60 feet on up to over 150 feet,
many tend to come to the area for the summer and then head
back down south via lake Huron, Lake St Clair, Lake Erie,
Lake Ontario and down the Erie barge canal and the Hudson
River to Lauderdale, Miami and the Caribbean, to winter in
warmer climes. Smaller yachts have several other ways to go
to or from the Georgia Bay region. A very scenic way is to
come from Lake Ontario is via the Trent Severn Canal lock
system which runs through Ontario's prime cottage country,
via a well-maintained series of locks and with many interesting
towns and stops along the away. The trip known as The Great
Loop includes the Trent to Georgian Bay and back down Lake
Michigan to Chicago with transit down the Mississippi River,
around Florida and back up the eastern seaboard to New York,
travelling back to Lake Ontario via the Hudson River and the
Erie Barge Canal. This is a trip of a lifetime for serious
cruisers. The less adventurous can charter yachts right in
the 30, 000 Islands and North Channel.
Boating Georgian Bay online directory offers some spectacular
photography and is kept up to date with the latest new and
events pertaining to the area, including a Twitter feed for
boaters and boat related services in the Georgian Bay region.
Publisher's Note: Georgian Bay is somewhat
of a misnomer as being only a "Bay". It is considered
by many to be the 6th Great Lake and should be named as such.
The first European Samuel de Champlain called the bay "La
Mer Deuce" "The Sweet Sea", as the water was
fresh and not salty, and seemed so large that it needed to
be called a "Sea". The watersheds feeding Georgian
Bay bring some of the purest water into this large Bay thereby
providing a signiicant emphasis on the ecology and continued
need to provide safe boating practices to conserve and protect
this great Canadian resource.
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