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Here is the local sailing area:
Prevailing winds in Kingston are SW - right into the Upper and Lower Gaps, down the St Lawrence as far as the Spectacles, and pretty much straight down the Bay of Quinte from Picton.
On a typical summer day the wind gets uparound 11:00 or so. The "Kingston Thermal". But you'll be motoring again by 7 PM.
When bad weather is blowing in, things swing around from the NE - as you'd expect. Oddly, you find most of the popular anchorages (Brakey Bay, Milton Island, Kerr Bay, Stella, Prinyers Cove) quite exposed to the NE.
< Photo courtesy of NASA and the guys and gals who flew STS 100.
Nine Mile Point, on the western end of Simcoe Island, sports a lighthouse built in 1833.
The legendary Kingston winds make for great sailing!
Caution:
"Magnetic Anomalies" are common and can be quite startling if you are motoring on autohelm. You can have some violent and unexpected turns. There is one anomaly off the filtration plant near Portsmouth and another near Cedar Island. Among others. Prince Edward Bay is full of anomalies as well.
Click
here to visit Stella Bay and Kerr Bay on Amherst Island
How
did Kingston's Myles Shoal get its name?Click to find
out.