i.
Outdoor Winter Storage
A local Kawartha yard, fenced, gated and monitored, October through May. Insured to $5M, certificate on request, location never published.
Full detailsA local yard for the Trent-Severn chain, from Balsam and Cameron through Sturgeon, Pigeon and Buckhorn.
The Kawarthas are not one lake but a linked chain along the Trent-Severn Waterway: Balsam and Cameron at the top of the system, then Sturgeon, Pigeon, Buckhorn and Lower Buckhorn running east toward Stony. Balsam Lake is the summit of the whole waterway, the highest point a boat can reach on the Trent, which is the sort of detail that only matters until the day it matters a great deal.
Because it matters here more than anywhere else we work: when the locks close for the season, your boat is wherever it is. Parks Canada shuts the Trent-Severn to navigation around Thanksgiving, and if your slip is on one side of a lock and your ramp is on the other, that date is a hard wall rather than a guideline. Owners on this system need to plan haul-out backwards from the lock closure, not forwards from the first cold night.
The water itself shapes the fleet. These lakes are shallow, weedy and warm, which suits pontoons, fishing boats and smaller runabouts far more than deep-water cruisers. Pontoons in particular need a wrap built with a real peak on it, because a flat deck collects snow and a flat wrap over a flat deck is how you end up with water sitting on furniture in March.
We run a yard in the Kawarthas rather than hauling everything back toward Simcoe, so the trip from Lindsay, Bobcaygeon, Fenelon Falls or Buckhorn is short. Rates are per foot and published. West of here we also cover Lake Simcoe from two further yards.
Plan around the lock closure. It is the only deadline on this system that will not move for you.
A local Kawartha yard, fenced, gated and monitored, October through May. Insured to $5M, certificate on request, location never published.
Full details9 mil marine grade film on a vented frame with a proper peak, which is what keeps snow off a pontoon deck instead of on it. Money-back guarantee.
Full detailsFrom Sturgeon, Pigeon, Buckhorn, Balsam, Cameron or Scugog, before the locks close. Flat published rates, round trip.
See pricingShrink Wrap Muskoka has been storing and wrapping boats in Ontario cottage country since 2019. The Kawartha Lakes operation runs from its own local yard, with the same insurance, the same published rates and the same money-back guarantee on wrap quality.
Navigation on the Trent-Severn shuts around Thanksgiving. After that your boat stays on whichever side of the lock it is sitting on.