Living the Dream A Social Distancing Vacation in Paradise STORY BY MATTHEW ST. AMAND PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY JACK JORGENSEN AND GLEN MUIR
EVERYONE HAS THEIR OWN VISION of what “living the dream” entails, but many of us can agree one that ranks among the top is traveling by luxury watercraft to a beautiful destination. Extra points for that beautiful destination being in Ontario. This past July, Jack Jorgensen, President & C.E.O. of Advance Business Systems, and Glen Muir of RE/MAX Preferred Realty Ltd., lived the dream on a 15-day voyage that included stops in Grand Bend, Kincardine, Tobermory, Killarney, Gore Bay, Little
Current, Port Elgin and Bayfield – a major league trek of 600 nautical miles. A vacation in any one of these locations would make for a memorable summer. Jack and Glen managed to string together the K-tel Greatest Hits of Cottage Country in one fell swoop. To begin at the beginning, Jack and Glen have been friends for 27 years and have boated together for nearly as long. It’s said that people are not truly friends until they travel together. And traveling by boat – well, any mode of transportation where “walking the plank” is an option will test the strongest of bonds. Jack and Glen hedged their bets a little in this department, each taking his own boat: Jack’s yacht – Jackie’s Rose V – is a 60-foot Sea Ray 540. Glen is the proud captain of a 50-foot Sea Ray 460 yacht. Both are equipped with two bedrooms, two bathrooms, kitchenette, dining area, full sized fridge and freezer, washer/dryer. They are like seaworthy luxury condos. “We live on the boats,” Jack Jorgensen says. “We have everything we need, there. I have been boating for forty-plus years and there is no better way to see our province.” Relaxation is naturally enforced: some of the areas to which they traveled have little to no cell phone coverage. At night, darkness closes in like the black void of space. “With no light pollution,” Glen says, “you cannot believe the view of the stars.” The boaters were fortunate the weather was in a (mostly) cooperative mood. At one point, however, while docked in Little Current, Jack and Glen were relaxing on the
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Right: Lake Topaz, near Baie Fine and the Pool. Below left to right: Playing “corn hole” at Killarney Mountain Lodge; Jack & friend in dinghy; BBQ dinner, Port Elgin; Jack and Glen in Port Elgin. Bottom: Little Tub Marina, Tobermory.
