March 23, 2018
Canary Islands – Staging Area for Atlantic Crossings Through the Ages
I don’t know what I expected the first time we made landfall in the Canary Islands but I have to admit that after sailing from the lush mid-Atlantic island of Madeira, I was seriously surprised when the barren desert-like landscapes of the Canary Islands came into view.
March 20, 2018
Squamish Yacht Club is at the centre of a boating paradise
The Squamish Yacht Club (SYC) in Howe Sound is a private, non-profit club. Since 1975, club members have demonstrated a passion for cruising and racing.
March 20, 2018
Salty Dawg Announces Summer Rallies To Maine and Nova Scotia
The Salty Dawg Sailing Association (SDSA) invites all sailors to join a cruising rally from the Chesapeake to Maine andthen, for the first time, a second rally from Maine to Nova Scotia.
March 20, 2018
Tropic Ocean Airways and The Moorings: Fly & Sail Seaplane and Catamaran in the Bahamas
When it’s cool here at home we love to charter down south. The problem often is that getting to the charter base often requires multiple connections and more time than you might hope.
March 7, 2018
Guysborough Sailing School
Kate Tompkins from the Guysborough County Sailing Club sent us this information about their new sailing school.
March 7, 2018
OYS pulled back from the edge
After some anxious moments, petitions and a #SaveOYS effort by the club, the Oakville Yacht Squadron and the Town of Oakville have settled dispute that could have jeopardized club’s future.
March 7, 2018
Dinghy cruising on the Eastern Shore with Rob Dunbar – part 2
From listening to the weather forecast the night before, I knew the gale had passed. A small craft warning was however, issued with maximum winds of 25 knots.
February 21, 2018
Dinghy Cruising with Rob Dunbar on the Eastern Shore
“Let me go, Pappa! Let me go!” That was my battle cry as a three-year-old when my grandfather lashed a line to his dinghy and set me adrift in the Strait of Canso.
February 20, 2018
Polsko Kanadyjski Jacht Klub – BIAŁY ŻAGIEL
Last week I had a terrific opportunity to connect with the members of the White Sails – Polish Canadian Yacht Club at their off-the-water home in Etobicoke. I was honoured to be asked to ring the ships bell, starting the monthly…
January 24, 2018
Central Marine Gets All Continental
Central Marine has been putting boats onto Georgian Bay from its Midland location since 1969. In the past it has been a huge vendor of the Grew craft that were built in nearby Penetanguishene for decades.
January 10, 2018
Passamaquoddy Bay
Long popular with New England and St. John area boaters, Passamaquoddy Bay is too often overlooked as a destination by cruisers from Nova Scotia.
January 10, 2018
Diane Reid presents an interesting UK Circumnavigation
At this year’s Toronto Boat Show then again on March 8 at Ashbridges Bay Yacht Club Toronto sailor/adventurer Diane Reid will present her experience circumnavigating the UK as the skipper of A Plastic Voyage.
January 4, 2018
My Big Fat Greek Charter
We did breakfast yesterday in the Greek port of Piraeus, just outside Athens:strong coffee, crisp bacon, fresh bread, and omelets spiked with Feta Cheese.
January 2, 2018
Bayfield Inlet
Wispy threads of morning mist rise slowly skyward off the unwavering water revealing a glassy expanse under sparkling sunlit skies.
December 19, 2017
Royal Fever on the River Thames
After much speculation Prince Harry finally popped the question to American actress and longtime Toronto resident Meghan Markle and people are EXCITED.
December 19, 2017
Deep Cove Yacht Club
The Deep Cove Yacht Club is a family and community minded club with a shared love of boating and water activities.
December 19, 2017
Hidden harbours: Yankee Cove to Louse Harbour
There will be no description here of services, facilities, shopping or even pubs, just place where you can find the kind of quiet and sense of isolation which is getting ever harder to locate.
December 19, 2017
“A Great Story” – update
Last January we ran a short piece on the motor boat A Great Story which had been restored by the crew at Covey Island Boatworks.
December 12, 2017
Destination Cheticamp
While much is made of Cape Breton’s Celtic connections to Old Scotland there are also several vibrant Acadian communities on the island.
November 23, 2017
Gimli Yacht Club
As I scanned the race committee boats being used for the Canada Summer Games, I found it quite curious that the mark and pin boats were actually fishing boats.
November 23, 2017
The Middens of Galiano Island
We motored our way into Montague Harbour along a twisted channel with our engine muffled by the leaning trees.
November 21, 2017
Milltown has it all
Last weekend while checking out the facilities at the Milltown Marina, I happened upon the Milltown Bar and Grill. What a surprise! We had one of the best pub meals ever.
November 21, 2017
STRAIT LOVE – Mulgrave then and now
Nova Scotia’s coastline is dotted with hidden gems and jewels in areas that are often overlooked by Tourism companies and locals alike. One of those places is the Strait of Canso which separates Cape Breton Island from mainland Nova Scotia.
November 8, 2017
Favorite Eastern Shore Harbour
Located almost exactly half way between Halifax and entrance to the Bras d’Or Lakes at St. Peters, Liscomb River has long been a popular stopping place for yachts.
November 8, 2017
The Moorings adds Antigua
The Moorings has just announced the launch of its newest Caribbean destination, Antigua.
October 24, 2017
Abernethy & Gaudin Boatbuilders
Rob Abernethy and Jean Gaudin have honed their craft of wooden boat building for many years. Jean gained experience through example working alongside some of the finest joiners and boatbuilders the Island has to offer.
October 24, 2017
LaHave River Yacht Club
This brief history of the early days of the LaHave River Yacht Club (LRYC) gives an idea of the DIY enthusiasm of the club’s founders and the unpretentious love of boating motivated them.
October 24, 2017
Covey Island Boatworks
It could be said that Covey Island Boatworks put Canada on the map during the early days of wood/epoxy composite boatbuilding.
October 11, 2017
Windsor Yacht Club – The Chimo Race
At 18:45pm October 4th 2017, the first warning signal was fired for the 42nd Annual Chimo Race, hosted by Windsor Yacht Club.
October 11, 2017
Commodore’s Boats
Commodore’s Boats is a full service shipyard with over 50 years of generational history and experience on the West Coast of British Columbia, Canada. Bosun (Bo) Spiller, owner and operator of the business has spent nearly his entire life hanging around boatyards, shipwrights and boat owners.
October 11, 2017
Visit Ryan May in San Francisco
Toronto sailor and former RCYC coach/sailing instructor Ryan May is now a US coast guard captain and is presently accepting bookings in San Francisco California.
October 11, 2017
Dobson Yacht Club – a History
Located across the harbour from downtown Sydney the Dobson Yacht Club has an interesting history.
September 27, 2017
Summerside Yacht Club and Marina (SYC)
Located in beautiful Summerside harbor, Summerside Yacht Club and Marina has room for 90 boats at slips with the ability to accommodate visiting yachts as large as 100ft.
September 27, 2017
Silva Bay Ship Yard
Located on Gabriola Island – the perfect jumping off point for the Gulf Islands. Silva Bay is approximately 20 nautical miles from Vancouver, 65 nautical miles from Victoria and a very short trip from Nanaimo.
September 22, 2017
Our Top 5 Caribbean Destinations
Do you ever dream about traveling by boat on sparkling tropical seas as winter sets in at home and the weather turns colder and grayer?
September 22, 2017
A Trip To Iconic Italian Yachtbuilder Riva And Lake Como
Eyes turn and conversations on shore pause as one boat in particular approaches the Grand Hotel Serbelloni’s jetty that extends out into the sparkling blue waters of Lake Como off Bellagio, northern Italy.
September 21, 2017
Desirable destination, but where do you park?
Winter or summer, there’s no parking on Cowichan Bay. Oh, there are cars. There are a lot of them, parked cheek-by-jowl and end-to-end. And there are moving cars too, with drivers who hover as hopefully as circling birds looking for a place to roost. Their optimism touches me.
September 15, 2017
Beaconsfield Yacht Club
Two-hundred-year-old homes are what ghost stories are made of, and Beaconsfield Yacht Club (BYC) has its fair share of both.
September 15, 2017
A Beam Reach for Paradise
Just before the weekly party at Shirley HeightsSunsail staffer Chris Donahue conducts our chart briefing inthe cockpit of our chartered Jeanneau 41, lashed stern-to on a cobblestone pier where two Royal Navy officers once fought a fatal duel, hard by Sunsail’s base office housed in a stone building, circa 1795.