I spoke too soon. The next video will actually be transiting the huge Peterborough Lift Lock. The rainy day maintenance video will follow the week after.

As a future solo looper this is some of the best locking advise I have ever heard. Thank you so much for sharing your trip.

Mike, it was great to meet you today at Port Severn, your final lock before entering Georgian Bay. I hope the eddies and current weren’t too bad at the bottom of the lock. Keep up the good work and safe travels.

Glad to see you getting more confident in your quest

I also just passed the 70 mark in life. I'd over my assistance to you doing the locks. I live near North end of Lake Simcoe

Just wanted to say that I've really enjoyed watching your videos and you have been an inspiration to me and my wife. Congrats on going for it!!

Really appreciated seeing you change the belt. Content like that is why I watch KZfaq University! 😂👍

Great video. Watching you travel alone makes me think of what I'm trying to do, with my wife whom doesn't like boating too much. Lol

Another wonderful video! Thank you for your time in putting these together. We’ve seen other boaters go through the Peterborough Lift Lock. Looking forward to your take on it! Fair winds and following seas!

Great video content. We will keep a look out for you on Georgian Bay!

Yes...I don't need to hear anyone else's choice in music. Save that for the sandbar. I've really been interested in your solo effort more because of that than the actual travel. At the onset of your Loop, I thought, "this could get real interesting in a hurry", but you've gone with the flow and made it all work. Quite an accomplishment. Maybe I'll be able to catch you sometime as you pass through the Straits of Mackinac area. Cruiser "Last Resort" Mackinaw City Municipal.

I can't wait to see you go through Big Chute Lock and Peterborough Lock

I am enjoying your videos.

#1 Rule on a boat NO Bannanas!! Great Videos

Great videos, I live on Lake Simcoe. Do a shopping vid in the towns you are docking in. Get yourself some poutine or ice cream, walk around a bit. Make for interesting vid also. Keep up the great job and enjoy Canada 🇨🇦 cheers

Always nice to have great dock hands to help you out. You are definitely living the dream. Thanks for sharing your awesome adventures with the rest of us.

Glad you got the locks down. Keep doing what you’re doing.

Thank you for a great trip on the Loop! I really enjoy watching and your explanation of what you have encountered! I just have a small bass boat, love fishing and at 64, admire you doing this trip by yourself.

I always thought I wanted to do the loop, but travelling with you is much better. I don't have to pay for fuel or make up my bunk each morning! Safe travels!

i had a line jam at the buckhorn lock going up. glad i keep a sharp knife handy.👍👍

Very glad to see you got the lock situation figured out. The marina at the opening has to be one of the finest marinas I've ever seen. As far as future updates go it would be nice to get the specs of your boat, what year is it, engine type and manufacturer... and all that jazz.

At least you did not wait around till you could not do your trip like I did, I retired and bought me a touring bike and going to travel this beautiful country, got the bike on a Monday got used to it and packed my stuff up on a Thursday evening going to leave out Friday instead Friday morning I was in a Life flight helicopter heading to Lexington for quadruple bypass surgery, never have got back to where I feel like I could take and make that kind of trip, so I've got a brand new bike it's about 8 years old with less than 3,000 mi on it in my basement,, may God bless you and please enjoy yourself you deserve it,

I like how you analyzed your experiences vs what you've read/watched. As someone else said this is a big part of why I watch channels like yours ... to learn. From my own [life] experience I think the reason you seem like an old pro vs other lockers is that you [appear to] take an experience (ie tying up in a lock) and think it through until you actually _understand_ it, while most people [seem to] just file the raw information away for reference as is. This allows you make adjustments for variations to the situation (tying up) while others only have that singular specific example to refer back to which may or may not match a new situation.

Finally! A Looper who has finally done some fishing! Nice bass! Awesome to see! Safe travels, sir!

There is nothing 'boring' about 'the daily grind'. I look forward to the next video and boat maintenance.

Trent Port is my home marina.. Andrew and his staff are amazing

'Lifeon the boat' content would be awesome. Living the loop vicariously I am

We enjoy watching your channel! Great job, wonderful content and thanks for sharing!

Glad you are feeling comfortable with the locks! I have never done them but, like you, In have watched and read about possible problems. The more different things you can include in your videos the better for me. I have not done the loop and at 83, probably won't . Experience usually makes us better at whatever we are trying to do so keep at it and I look forward to the rest of your journey until you cross your wake.

Another great video. Also enjoyed watching you do the maintenance in the engine room.

I have to admit that first lock you encountered I was lol a bit😅 You had her mid tied and she really can't go anywhere. Love your honesty, keep up the great content. Far winds and following seas 👍

I just started to watch your videos.....very, very informative and interesting.....will continue to follow your journey....tip in Canadian $

I like your videos.

I boat the Trent and Otanabee rivers nearly every week, I will keep an eye out for you.

I have a big carbiner on a rope to clip to the Lock lines, works slick and doesn't stick.

Amazing to come across your videos today. I live near Lake Simcoe. If there's anything you need while in the area, please let us know, be happy to help you! Hope you enjoy your visit to Canada. Happy Canada Day!

i love your videos!

Mayflies is what everyone calls them. Just watched some Canadians starting the loop and she said what the real name was. They've only got 4 videos out so far. RIMO is the name of their channel I believe

I’m really enjoying your journey. I plan to do the loop in a year or two. I will also be solo much of the way. I can’t tell you how many “experts” have told me I can’t do it alone. Ha…. I’m also a huge fisherman and plan to fish as much as possible. You are about to enter bass fishing nirvana. Some of the best smallmouth fishing in the world is in the thousand island, Georgian bay and Great Lakes. I’m jealous… Happy trails….Tom

Enjoyed the video. I will be heading up the Trent Severn in Aug. You should show some of the scenery a bit more especially after you cross Simcoe as you enter the Canadian Shield area which is very nice.

Just keep an eye out for broken pvc covering. I’ve had mine catch on a section of cable that was missing an inch of the pvc covering while on the Rideau Canal.

I would definitely use horizontal bags for locking, but vertical for most docking. Basicly if you're against a wall, horizontal bags, if you're against a shelf (ie dock), vertical bags. YMMV

I didn't know you had to pay!! Is that going down the Mississippi also!! How much all together did all the locks cost?? Did you have to pass into Canada? I'm going to have to do it as cheap as possible! Sorry for all the questions! Im enjoying watching you!! When are you going to be in Michigan

This was very interesting. Thanks for sharing it with us.

About your migraines when you drink. Not sure if you have always been that way but I used to drink in college and then started suffering a similar thing. It started with two beers and I felt like i was hung over, then latter, even one beer would make me feel awful. Turns out I hared a large brain tumor the size of an apricot. I think the alcohol dilated the blood vessels in my brain and there just was not enough room for everything. There is medication for what I have and now 20 years latter and with treatment I can have a beer with my dinner again.

I'm enjoying your Great Loop series and learning a lot. Although not my first choice, I may end up doing the Loop single-handed someday, so I'm wondering if a twin engine express cruiser 30 to 35 ft. LOA might be easier to manage? A flybridge seems like a liability due to being more vulnerable to wind, rocking, and going up and down stairs for handling lines. In your experience, what would be the smallest capable--in terms of cruising range and seaworthiness--boat for the loop? I won't add comfort to the equation because that is a relative term; after all, I've heard of men cruising the Loop on a WaveRunner. I look foward to your next installment! God bless you in your travels!

I enjoy your videos. I've been following since day one of your Great Loop trip. It's your "welcome to the internet" moment catching trolls, congrats you've arrived at the internet. I think you've come a long way since the departure wind issues and the first lock where you hurt your back. Experience is the best teacher. If you don't mind my asking, what was your reasoning about using your bow thruster as an emergency tool only? I think if I've got a tool, use it. Did you mean you wanted to be good enough with the engines, not to require using it? I think the more wind and current you are in, the more you'll be able to anticipate what you need to do. Hope you continue to have good weather and safe travels.

The answer us!! No bananas on boat's!!

Nice video but I would encourage you to fly your Canadian courtesy flag forward of the American flag displayed at your transom. Traditionally it was flown at the starboard mast spreader. If you have two masts it’s supposed to be flown at the forward mast spreader. I suspect you could find a place to display the Canadian flag that would be more in accordance with flag etiquette and “rules” than its irrelevant t location near the American flag. I enjoy your videos. Please keep them coming.

Great lock comments. The 3 foot loop makes a lot of sense. Thanks!! Is there a fee for the Erie canal?

Thank you very much for the comment at the end of your video regarding the locks

I like what you’re doing, but as you say, if you can make it more interesting with going around, lightning storms, cruising during the day during a rainstorm, boat repairs. I’m so glad you’re having fun. I’ve been up and down the canals Hudson river in lakes for 45 years. Just thinking what would be interesting to me.

I’m very conflicted, I too want to stop listening to social media as gospel, and yet here we are 😂

You didnt show the lock at Peterborough, or the one at Kirk field. Two the highlights of the Trent Severn.

Can you explain the fees associated with the Trent Severn locks, is it a per foot cost for locking and overnighting can I just buy locking fees and no overnighting fees can I just overnight on the waterways. Are there any amenities to camping on the wall?

Did you purchase a fishing license as required in Ontario. Nice bass!!!!

Where abouts are you in real time today July 1st, I'm not far from the trent

Maybe ROMI. First 2 letters of each 1st name. She's Michelle. Guess he's Robert or Roger. Maybe Rick. LOL.

In Canada you MUST have a fishing license

Most of those students have never been on a boat, be careful. The often say " perfect" but don't always mean it.

Do you need a Canadian fishing license? Aren’t bananas on a boat bad luck?

Competent workers are hard to find and tend to be spread thin, friendly but useless people are everywhere.

When single handed, do not leave your boat. A Hank of line in a loop to throw over a cleat or bollard is the method of securing your boat. Do not leave your boat. A sudden gust and the boat is moving away leaving you to attempt to pull it back. When you were younger, you might win that battle. Now?

People exaggerate!

your virtical fenders are too low, in loch they shoudl be up on rub rail, they wont dig in that way

Your belt issue makes me wonder about the bearings in the tensioner. And, have all the bananas you want. I have seen otherwise rational people take this superstition seriously.

Was enjoying the video, until your 20 minute dissertation. Less preaching, more boating please. Your viewers/subscribers will appreciate it.