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West Vancouver Yacht Club celebrates the 50th Southern Straits Classic

The 50th Annual of the Southern Straits Classic Yacht race hosted by the West Vancouver Yacht Club on the Easter weekend was resounding success.

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Mixing It Up At The Newport Yacht Club

It’s Friday afternoon at the Newport Yacht Club in Stoney Creek, and that can only mean one thing – the members are preparing for their end-of-the-week social event that nobody wants to miss – yep, it’s ‘Mix ‘n Mingle’ time!

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Bedford Basin Yacht Club to offer Women’s’ Keelboat Learn to Race Program

BBYC has brought back a new and improved Keelboat Learn to Race program. The first session is for women only and will run on Monday and Wednesday evenings.

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‘Zawisza Czarny’ – The Polish-Canadian Yachting Club

As things are always better in the Bahamas, especially during Canadian winters, so too are things done better with friends.      

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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. 

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Guysborough Sailing School

Kate Tompkins from the Guysborough County Sailing Club sent us this information about their new sailing school.

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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. 

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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…    

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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. 

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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. 

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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. 

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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.

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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. 

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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.       

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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.     

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Dobson Yacht Club – a History

Located across the harbour from downtown Sydney the Dobson Yacht Club has an interesting history.      

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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. 

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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. 

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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.       

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Ground breaking ceremony at Dartmouth Yacht Club

As we celebrate Canada’s 150th birthday there is also much to celebrate in the revitalization of Halifax.

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Royal Victoria Yacht Club wins 2017 Club of the Year in Canada

The Royal Victoria Yacht Club has been bestowed a great honour by the Canadian Society of Club Managers (CSCM). Royal Victoria Yacht Club was awarded “Club of the Year” in the medium club category.      

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Gimli Yacht Club 50 years and still making a splash with the sailing best

The Gimli Yacht club on their 50th anniversary is hosting the sailing venue for the 2017 Canada Summer Games being held in Winnipeg.      

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The Dory Shop

No trip to Lunenburg for me is complete without checking out what’s in the yard by the Dory Shop.      

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Covey Island Boatworks

On a recent visit to Lunenburg I had a few minutes to speak with Al Hutchinson at Covey Island Boatworks. The company, which gained an international reputation for building wood/epoxy yachts mostly of a traditional nature, has been busy diversifying in the face of a changing marketplace.    

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Modernizing Tradition at Rossiter Boats

Walking in to the small showroom at the Rossiter Boat factory, the company values and evolution of tradition become immediately apparent;it is a small but thriving manufacturer that truly cares about exceptional quality and customer relationships.

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Ben Eoin Yacht Club offers Youth Sailing Program

The Bras d’Or lakes are blessed with countless beautiful anchorages, but only a few marinas. The newest is at Ben Eoin Yacht Club (BEYC) on East Bay, about 25 minutes from downtown Sydney.      

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Reef Boat Club

Do you know how many boaters you run into while standing in the lift lines of Blue Mountain and the surrounding private ski clubs? Quite a few! Start some conversations on the ski lifts and you might be surprised how many avid boaters you can meet.

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Long Time Coming

Following a 10-year hiatus, Richmond, BC-based Crescent Custom Yachts is once again launching new-build superyachts on Canada’s Pacific coast.      

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Cedar Island Yacht Club

The very first yacht club ever featured in this column was the Buffalo Yacht Club, back in 2012.

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Carver Marquis Plant Tour – July 2016

Last July, I had the pleasure of traveling to Wisconsin on behalf of Boating Industry Canada. I had been invited to take a plant tour of the Carver Marquis yacht building facilities…      

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Sailing made easy

For many people the cost of buying, docking and maintaining a sailboat makes no sense, and especially when you consider the time commitments.

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Kitsilano Yacht Club

One of the real treasures to be found in English bay Vancouver is the Kitsilano Yacht Club.It is located at 2401 Point Grey Road.

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Armdale Yacht Club

You can’t possibly pack in more national history associated with a yacht club than what you can find on Deadman’s Island in Nova Scotia.

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Bruce Thompson of Tern Boatworks sent an update on the build of the custom Laurie McGowan designed 48ft motorsailer

“Here is a brief rundown of the work on going. We are installing water and fuel tanks, fore peak and master cabin have staving fitted and primed ready for topcoat paint…

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125 years of History at Lunenburg Foundry

Lunenburg Foundry and Engineering Limited has been in business since 1891 surviving two world wars, the Great Depression and continuous change in the fishing and marine industry.

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Lakeshore Yacht Club

In 1801, an enterprising Loyalist and British Army officer, Colonel Samuel Bois Smith, was granted 1,000 acres of land south of what is now Kipling Avenue in Etobicoke.Fast-forward to the end of the century and this tract of land would be occupied by the newly constructed Mimico Lunatic Asylum, to be renamed the Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital,which closed in 1979.

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Nanaimo Yacht Club

For centuries the lure of the west coast brought settlers, immigrants, migrant workers, gold seekers, adventurers and entrepreneurs. Prior to their arrival…      

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Charlottetown Yacht Club

The Mi’kmaq indigenous peoples referred to her as Epelwik, translated literally as “Lying on the water”. When the Europeans first arrived and sailed into the Gulf of…

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Behind the Scenes at MJM Yachts

Nestled under an old iron bridge spanning Boston’s Mystic River lies a modern glass and concrete-paneled building, seemingly incongruous with the surrounding…

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