sail (on) the lakes

verb, to sail; see also on the lakes

“This guy, well he had lots of experience. He’d sailed on the lakes and everything.”

“I know Tom, what used to be one of the captains on there, and Tom had sailed the lakes, and he said that he got deathly sick if it was a severe storm, and he said right to the day he got off the lake boats, if he got into a severe storm he would still get sick.”

“Yeah he’d been sailing the lakes, that’s right. And that’s how he got the job on the Wolfe Islander.”

“There was three deckhands and two watchmen and two wheelsmen, eh, that sailed on the lakes.

“I sailed with him on the lakes.”

“I worked in Kingston at the aluminum plant, at the labs there, for two years. Then I went sailing on the lakes for another two years.

“I went sailing on the lakes for two years then. I sailed on the lakes for ’53 and ’54.”
“How far up the lakes did you go?”
“I went to Thunder Bay.”