My wife and I cruised and lived about our 39 ft. Trawler for 14 months. We travelled from Lake Michigan to Florida via the Mississippi, Tennessee, and other rivers to Mobile, AL then followed the coast around Florida north tho New York, then the Erie Canal, crossed Lake Ontario to Canada and transited the Trent Severn canal system, Georgian Bay, the North Channel in Northern Lake Huron and back to where we started.