December 21, 2010
Planning Your Dream Cruise: 6 – Maintaining A Home Base While Cruising
The decision to cast off the dock lines and undertake a long-term cruise involves considerate financial planning from establishing a budget for outfitting your boat, travelling expenses, insurance, sightseeing costs, maintenance and repairs, and changing costs of living as you move from destination to destination. So it’s no surprise that in the process of planning a cruise, the topic of whether or not it’s economical to maintain a home base while you’re away nearly always comes up.
May 19, 2010
Sunshine Coast, British Columbia
Strung out below Syren Point on the east side of Hotham Sound is popular Harmony Islands Marine Park. The biggest and smallest of these four islands (the rest are private) are designated as a marine park, with the southernmost park providing flat, grassy spots for kayakers to beach their craft and set up camp. The adjacent waters in the channel between the islands and the mainland are also within the park’s boundaries. We headed for our favourite, sheltered spot known locally as Kipling Cove – tucked between the three northern islands, it offers dramatic vistas, good snorkelling opportunities and warm water swimming in July and August.
May 17, 2010
Log Of The Caledonia – From Quebec to Newfoundland
SATURDAY (1100 HOURS) The weather is fine: sunny and hazy. A perfect afternoon on the Saint Lawrence. At precisely eleven hundred hours the call echoes across the deck of “Caledonia”, a barkentine tall ship two-hundred-forty-five feet long. “Prepare to cast off.”
May 10, 2010
The Pleasures of Pender Harbour, British Columbia
At 8.15 am, on a rain-washed Vancouver morning, I found myself neatly buckled into the front seat of a well-seasoned ‘Beaver’ floatplane. With latte in hand and ears well plugged, my trusty pilot and I were headed for Pender Harbour, where I was about to discover the delights of the ‘Venice of the Sunshine Coast’ by boat. My husband Laurence and our faithful 36′ sloop ‘Dreamspeaker’ were eagerly awaiting my arrival, having braved a southeasterly gale and huge seas off Cockburn Point to make our scheduled meeting on time.
May 7, 2010
Cruising the ‘Rhine of North America’ – St. John River, New Brunswick
There are great boating experiences to be had all around the province of New Brunswick. The eastern shore ports on the Gulf of Saint Lawrence offer very unique and picturesque harbours to enjoy during the summer months. There are numerous opportunities to gunkhole through the areas of the Northumberland Strait separating New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island in the Bay of Fundy; there are also many beautiful harbours to tuck into and explore, but that’s another article. The highlight of New Brunswick boating has to be cruising the Saint John River.
November 11, 2009
Sylvan Lake, Alberta
Nestled just west of Red Deer, at a point not two hours from Edmonton or Calgary, lies Sylvan Lake, one of the most popular recreational lakes in Alberta. The roads leading to Sylvan Lake are excellent. It is easy driving with a boat and trailer.
November 11, 2009
Lake of the Woods, Ontario
Imagine a place for a family vacation that you will never forget; a lake so beautiful and so vast that you could probably never see all of it. But, what if there was an event that could quickly connect you to a way to explore a lot of it in safety and in an organized fashion?