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Crossing the Line: How AI makes boating easy

By John MorrisYour voice is hoarse from talking on the…

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POTW: Little Eddie – Inspector

This issue’s Photo of the Week comes from friend Katie…

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Buddy Melges – the Canadian Connection

My first recollection of  Buddy Melges was on Lake…

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Learn How BENETEAU Builds Boats and More

At BENETEAU’s manufacturing facility, builders thorough…

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POTW: Cruel Jane 2.0

Our Photo of the Week comes our way from crew member Br…

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Plan Your Boating Season

Who Says You Can’t Take It With You… Ideas for a grea…

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Organizing Your Boat for Quick Getaways and More Efficient Storage

On Monday, hearing a good weather forecast, we agreed o…

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Marine Industry Career Path: Nathanial Stabenow

Introducing the next graduate in our CYOB marine career path series, Nathanial Stabenow from the East Coast of Canada.

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POTW: Western Basin Lake Erie aboard the Iver Bright

This issue’s Photo of the Week comes from Tom Roesslein, who does his boating on Lake Ontario but caught this stunning shot in Lake Erie. His own boat, Heloc spent the winter on the hard at Fifty Point but will be headed to Port Dalhousie for the summer.

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I’m Lovin’ it

On a leisurely summer afternoon, what could be more relaxing than a cruise up the river aboard a stunning 48-footer with the most gracious host and a few very happy guests?

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Around the World – One Step at a Time

“Wake up Scott!!  We’ve got a couple hundred litres of water in the back of the boat, and I don’t know where it‘s coming from!” Alan Roberts, the other hand in Scott Shawyer’s doublehanded racing debut, the annual Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC) Transatlantic Race from Lanzarote to Grenada looked very concerned.

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Family Wins the 2022 YACHT Solutions’ Schaefer Yachts Summer Experience

The spring of 2022 had sprung and the excitement for another boating season was quickly approaching. Earlier in the year, YACHT Solutions and Canadian Yachting held a boating contest for one lucky winner to win a fractional membership aboard a Schaefer Yacht.

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POTW: These Will Get You in the Mood for Summer

POTW fan, Josh Neufeld, modestly sent along these beauties.

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POTW: No ice on the Detroit River!

Roger Renaud, our Windsor Sailing in Canada correspondent sends along this Photo of the Week update…

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POTW: Almost the last best shot

Our Photo of the week this time comes from Connie Peters. It’s almost the last shot we have left in our POTW collection from last summer and it certainly is a good one.

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Canada SAILGP Team Christens New F50 Spirit

Strategist of the Canada SailGP Team and National Sailing Team 49erFX sailor, Georgia Lewin-Lafrance from Chester, NS did the honours last week naming the team’s new F50 SPIRIT, just before the team’s inaugural sail in preparation for the KPMG Australia Sail Grand Prix – Sydney last weekend.

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Now this is Revolutionary

Our Photo of the Week comes from AJ Twist in Montreal who was getting away from the off-season in Cuba when he saw this wall mural of the Granma, the decrepit boat that brought Fidel, Ché and the others to begin the revolution. It’s the stuff of legend in Cuba!

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POTW: We Love Poland

Poland is in the news in a good way, so it seems like good timing that I Love Poland completed the RORC Transatlantic Race in Grenada with an elapsed time of 8 days 23 hrs 37mins 07 secs, taking Monohull Line Honours.

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Marine Industry Career Path: “Ask” Andrew McDonald

The next graduate in our Marine Industry Career Path series is one of Canadian Yachting Media’s very own, Andrew McDonald! Andrew most recently graduated from Georgian College in Ontario and has years of great experience in all aspects of the marine industry.

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POTW: Where do boats go next? Hamilton?

Our Video of the Week comes from Matt Ingram, a reporter at CHCH in Hamilton ON who investigated an abandon, unloved Viking 28 in Hamilton Harbour.

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Water Ways TV: Episode 8 – Port Lambton

Introducing Water Ways TV, an all-new recreational boat…

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Water Ways TV: Episode 7 – Georgian Bay

Introducing Water Ways TV, an all-new recreational boat…

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Water Ways TV: Episode 6 – The North Channel

            

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Water Ways TV: Episode 5 – Port Colborne

          

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POTW – Shot of the year: Maggie practicing

We get a lot of shots in our Photo of the Week inbox but never one like this. The photo came from Jim and Maggie Smyth whose boat resides at the Thornbury Yacht Club. We have deemed it POTW of the Year. Congratulations to Jim and Maggie.

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CYOB Inbox: The lock is locked

Good afternoon. With the possibility that the Kirkfield locks will be closed, we have no choice but to go north. Could you recommend a book etc. that would list desirable anchorage along Georgian bay small craft route. Thanks Bob Chamberlain

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POTW: 2 minutes for high shticking

A boater in Oakville, ON took this photo of a transom on the 16-Mile Creek – it may be the most appropriate name in this season of hockey madness (otherwise known as the Canadian winter).

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Marine Industry Career Path: April Scarlett

Introducing the next graduate in our marine career path series, April Scarlett. A former Ontario resident, April was enticed by the Pacific Ocean and everything it has to offer.

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POTW: Weather worn in BC

Connie Peters sent us this shot in the fall. It’s the perfect Photo of the Week as the seasons change.

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CYOB Inbox: November 24, 2022

Some time ago, in January 2021, our resident Boat Nerd, Mike Wheatstone, took a good look at solar power.  Since then we have been regularly getting input from solar enthusiasts and manufacturers. Here’s the latest.

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POTW: November 10, 2022

Our Photo of the Week this time comes from our CY Team at FLIBS. Perhaps it’s the camera angle or maybe it’s that our publisher, Jill Snider, is quite petite, but these are mighty big outboards.

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Plugboats: A major conversion of a 100 year old!

More than one owner of a sailboat in the past few years has thought, when trying to fire up a diesel or gas motor, that maybe the time is right to convert to electric for the times when they are not sailing under wind power.

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CYOB Inbox: November 10, 2022

HI Andrew – It’s apparent that you’ve never had a boat moored in the salt, because there, mussels and barnacles can also be a major issue in why one’s trim tabs no longer seem to work. One of the reasons ‘Canadian Yachting’ is often considered to be ‘Toronto as the centre of the universe’ yachting.

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POTW: You can never go wrong with pooches!!

Yes, we are once again going to the dogs, a very popular and always welcome Photo of the Week theme. These pups come our way via James Bambrick who tells us, “We boat on the Strait of Georgia out of Comox B.C. Nuggs is black; Sam is blonde.”

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Antonia and Georgia Lewin-LaFrance named Rolex Sailors of the Year

Last week Antonia and Georgia Lewin-LaFrance from Chester NS were named today Sail Canada’s Rolex Sailors of the Year for 2021-2022 during Canada’s Celebration of Sailing event held by Sail Canada and the Royal Nova Scotia Yacht Squadron.

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POTW: Shark bite

Hamilton, ON’s Shark two-time champ, Keven Piper, spent his fall vacation with his ILCA-6 sailor 15-year-old son heading to the J80 Worlds in Newport. Along the way, Willem illustrated the race they were heading to, and that’s our Sketch of the Week (SOTW?), this time.

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