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    Shelburne Yacht Club Receives $110,000 in Funding for Upgrades

    In advance of hosting the 2019 Albacore International Championship Regatta, the Shelburne Yacht Club announced they have received more than $110,000 for facility upgrades for the event.

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    Destination: Coal Harbour Marina

    For a destination filled with exciting things to see and do, make sure you put Coal Harbour Marina in downtown Vancouver on your itinerary.

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    Best Anchorages of the Inside Passage

    One of the finest cruising grounds in the world, the Inside Passage is a boater’s paradise with hundreds of pristine islands, inlets and anchorages.

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    Winter Sports at Prince Edward Yacht Club

    One of the best things about living out here in Victoria British Columbia is boating 12 months of the year. As an ex-pat from Ontario I love sending pictures of my adventures on the water to my former club members at the Prince Edward Yacht Club.

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    Head to John Henry’s

    At the 2019 Vancouver International Boat Show I had the pleasure of meeting up with Allyson and Richard Nelson. The transformation of this picturesque marina and resort has been absolutely spectacular.

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    Indoor sailing: Glenmore Sailing Club plays pool

    On Saturday, January 26 Calgary’s Glenmore Sailing Club’s kicked off its 60th anniversary year with some “Indoor Sailing”.

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    RCR brings in new 34 O

    RCR operates primarily in Youngstown, Buffalo and elsewhere on Lake Ontario and Lake Erie but often comes to this side of the border to represent its boat and brokerage lines.

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    Ben Eoin Yacht Club and Marina

    “I have travelled the globe. I have seen the Canadian and American Rockies, the Andes and the Alps, and the highlands of Scotland, but for simple beauty, Cape Breton outrivals them all.”

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    Thornbury on Georgian Bay

    Normally, our boating adventures are spent weaving our way amongst the picturesque backdrop of the 30,000 Islands of eastern Georgian Bay aboard our Sea Ray Sundancer 268. This time we’ve traded power for sail as friends welcome us aboard their 38-foot Irwin for the Canada Day long weekend.

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    Glenmore Sailing Club

    I think my favourite program was Bonanza. I would rush home after school, get my homework done, clean up the dishes, and then I would watch the ol’ West come alive with those three handsome, funny brothers who thrived on adventure.

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    How are things in BVI?

    Following the harsh impact of Hurricanes Irma and Maria, The British Virgin Islands is making an impressive comeback this winter. 

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    Thetis Island Marina is a favourite stopover for boaters in the Gulf Islands

    Situated in one of the best protected places in the Pacific Northwest, tucked between Thetis and Penelakut Islands. 

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    Bunsby Island

    For the adventurous boater Bunsby Marine Provincial Park is a special place, situated due south of Brooks Peninsula / Muquin Provincial Park on the west coast of Vancouver Island, south of Port Alice.

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    Destinations: Van Isle Marina

    Van Isle Marina, with its proud history dating from the 1940’s, is one of BC’s largest full-service marinas with a large variety of services including yacht sales, yacht maintenance & storage, haul out services, dry storage, moorage, fuel and Canada Customs.

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    Cruising in the Grenadines

    For at least ten years, six of us, all members at Toronto’s Ashbridges Bay Yacht Club, have been talking about chartering a boat in the Caribbean.

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    Mediterranean Shakedown: A Summer Cruise in Spain

    This summer my husband, Paul, and I bought our fourth offshore cruising boat, a new Southerly 480 built by Discovery Yachts in the UK.

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    Mackinaw Island Profile

    A favourite destination for many boaters and tourists alike is the lovely Mackinaw Island. Sitting in Lake Huron on the eastern end of the Straits of Mackinac in the state of Michigan, it covers almost ten kilometres, of which 80% is park land.

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    Cowichan Bay and Nearby

    There is good anchoring in Cowichan Bay and nearby, and salt water enough to make any boater happy. John and I don’t sail our 44-foot s/v Inuksuk anywhere in the Gulf Islands without the appropriate Yeadon-Jones Dreamspeaker cruising guide and it’s all there…

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    Sailing in the waters around Quadra Island

    Sailing in the waters around Quadra Island is fabulous. Admittedly the winds aren’t always reliable and you may not be hoisting the sails every day but the overall experience, scenery and atmosphere of Quadra is a sailor’s dream. 

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    Discovery Channel: Part 4 and the final segment of CYOB’s series on the passages north of Desolation Sound

    Discovery Channel, between Campbell River and Quadra Island, is a busy place so, in addition to constant current, be prepared for traffic. 

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    Surge Narrows: Part three in CYOB West’s survey of the major routes north of Desolation Sound

    In many ways, the middle route (Surge Narrows to the Okisollo Rapids) is more interesting if you plan to continue on to Johnstone Strait. 

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    The passages north of Desolation Sound Part 2

    Part two in CYOB West’s survey of the major routes north of Desolation Sound

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    The passages north of Desolation Sound Part 1

    So! You think you would like to explore beyond Desolation Sound, where some of BC’s best cruising grounds lie just beyond a series of challenging tidal passes.

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    Kanagio celebrates 85 year

    The Kanagio Yacht Club turned 85 years old on August 30th, 2018.  Back on  a Wednesday evening in 1933 in Port Stanley local boaters gathered to form a boat club in order to unite boat owners and enthusiasts. 

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    The world’s largest regatta – and you’ve probably never heard of it

    This month, Spirit of Portopiccolo, steered by Furio Benussi, with Alberto Bolzan at the mainsail, and tacticians Lorenzo Bressani and Gabriele Benussi, won the 50th edition of Barcolana, the largest regatta in the world held in Trieste, Italy

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    Grenada: It was all so inviting…

    Anytime a Canadian is asked to travel south in the beginning of our spring, which this year was far from inviting, is a dream worth living. The thought of a sailing adventure, tropical breezes, the smell of spices and the warmth of the sun was too much – we HAD to go! 

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    Great memories sailing BC waters and wanting more!

    As the 2018 sailing season winds down it is time to reflect about all those fantastic days on the water with family and friends. Sailing out of our home port has been made up of day sails with a few overnight stops at marinas. 

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    Crate Marine Belleville

    Everything that’s old is new again…what was long ago the highly respected Morch Marine is now Crate Marine Belleville – same great location and service, but all new facilities and staff.

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    An Abacos Adventure

    We’re gliding through green-blue waters, colours so vivid and bright they hurt your eyes. We’re set for a close reach out of a harbour guarded by a necklace of tiny emerald islands decorated by palms that dance in fifteen knots of wind.    

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    Gulf Yacht Club

    Back to the days when most sailors made their boats in their garages, backyards, or basements, because that would have been the only way that they could procure a boat of any type. 

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    The Beast in Halifax

    The Halifax waterfront has been attracting more and more large yachts in recent years. However, a recent visitor was a real show stopper. NGONI has to be one of the most extreme sailing yachts in the world.

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    Bras d’Or Yacht Club: Over a century on the Baddeck waterfront

    Ever since Alexander Graham Bell chose Baddeck for his summer home the town has been a popular destination for boaters and tourists. 

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    CYOB Destinations: We Visit the Hilton Beach Marina

    Ah Canadian simplicity at its finest; small town, big marina. Little Hilton Beach (population 200!), which I am lucky enough to call my cottage country, is located on the north-east coast of St. Joseph Island. 

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    Lunenburg attracting spectacular visiting yachts

    Nova Scotia’s seafaring history and boatbuilding tradition come to life on the Lunenburg waterfront. This UNESCO World Heritage Site offers visitors and residents a close-up on one of the world’s most remarkable and authentic working waterfronts.

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    The Pacific North West is seen as a premier destination for luxury crewed charter yachts

    Vancouver-based Big Blue Yacht Charters Worldwide owner Emma Murdoch explains that luxury crewed charter yachts are permanently professionally-crewed yachts, generally from 20m to over 100m that provide experienced senior officers, formally trained chefs, and five-star interior hotel amenities.

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    Busy summer on the waterfront at DYC

    This year the Halifax waterfront has been busier than ever. We’ve covered the Boxing Rock regatta and Route Saint Pierre and just recently the area near Bishop’s Landing was packed with over 60 boats, many sporting Pirate crews.

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    Dartmouth Yacht Club Grand Opening

    After years of contemplation, discussion and planning, ground was finally broken for the much-anticipated DYC clubhouse in the summer of 2017. 

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    Destinations: Port of Digby

    Ever since Royal Navy Captain Robert Digby dropped off 1800 or so Loyalists on the shore of the Annapolis Basin in 1783, the town of Digby has been Nova Scotia’s gateway to the Bay of Fundy.

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    Killarney

    We’re aboard Attigouatan, a Pursuit 2260 that normally lives life as a friend’s cottage boat, running back and forth from dock to dock. 

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