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Year
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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.”

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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