March 21, 2023
POTW: These Will Get You in the Mood for Summer
POTW fan, Josh Neufeld, modestly sent along these beauties.
March 7, 2023
POTW: No ice on the Detroit River!
Roger Renaud, our Windsor Sailing in Canada correspondent sends along this Photo of the Week update…
February 22, 2023
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.
February 7, 2023
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!
January 24, 2023
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.
January 10, 2023
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.
December 20, 2022
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.
December 6, 2022
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
December 6, 2022
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).
November 23, 2022
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.
November 23, 2022
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.
November 9, 2022
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.
November 8, 2022
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.
October 25, 2022
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.”
October 12, 2022
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.
September 21, 2022
POTW: Gray Creek Regatta smiles
This week’s Photo of the Week comes from BC. The 99th Grey Creek Regatta was held at the Lakeview Marina near Gray Creek over the Labour Day weekend. The 2-3 mile race takes place in the in Crawford Bay with different classes of sailboats.
September 2, 2022
Sweet Love
Back in 2019 (I believe) your magazine used a pic of Sweet Love, a Ranger Tug 31, in a photo promotion.
September 2, 2022
POTW: Practicing!!
a few shots of my wife Maggie practicing her silks routine on our 1982 C&C in the North Channel for use in your publication.
August 23, 2022
POTW Special edition: Zelensky
Last issue, we took a look at boat names. Little did we know we would get what probably will be the POTW shot of the year.
August 10, 2022
POTW: Boat names always make good shots
Boat names and puns go together like …. Well, like nothing else. Here’s a couple shared by our pal Patrick from Oakville ON.
July 19, 2022
POTW: Pride, ho!
Frequent Windsor racing contributor to Sailing in Canada Roger Renaud, caught this gorgeous shot of The Pride of Baltimore as she passed through Amherstburg, Ontario on July 12. The picture was taken at Amherstburg, looking west, on the Detroit River. headed for the Festival of Sail at Alpena, Michigan, on Lake Huron.
July 6, 2022
POTW: The perfect CY moment
Midland boaters Sheldon and Julia East were aboard their Rinker when daughters Jada and Jenna took over to set them up for this impressive Photo of the Week.
June 21, 2022
POTW: Bark like a Pirate Day
Ahoy me hearties. June is Sailpast month, so Keelly and her pal Tracey were themed out as (not very) fierce pirates for Toronto Hydroplane and Sailing’s festivities. Photo – Laurie Chan (Keelly’s mom)
June 7, 2022
POTW June 9: Trent traffic
Things are busy on the Trent already and it’s barely June. Mike Gridley sent us this shot last weekend when a glitch created a bit of a lock-through backlog. “Much better day on the Trent Severn Waterway today.
May 24, 2022
POTW: Thornbury parts swap success
Thanks to Louise from Gyles Sails and Marine for catching us up on this weekend’s massive parts swap. “After a Covid-induced hiatus of 2 years it was great to be back offering our annual Part Swap! The rainy weather didn’t deter our sailors…
May 11, 2022
POTW: Put out the Fenders
There are two POTWs this time. The reason? Guilt. We are picking up the first one from the internet – that’s a cheap source of great boat photos but, to be honest, it’s almost too easy. Still this shot is impossible to resist.
April 20, 2022
POTW special edition: Float your Fanny
Our own Ask Andrew ‘floated his Fanny down the Ganny’ in the annual boat race held on Ganaraska river in Port Hope, commemorating the 1980 flood in downtown Port Hope. This years race was April 9, 2022…..Andrew finished 14th out of 49.
April 6, 2022
POTW: New Cup, New watch
While there’s all kinds of discussion, particularly in NZ, about the plan to defend the 37th America’s Cup in Spain rather than in home waters, the Italian team, Luna Rossa, responded in a natural continental way, by introducing a new watch.
March 9, 2022
POTW: Beaming with Pride
This week you get two photos that came to us just recently from the Martin 242 Fleets in BC. The shots tell the same story – new owners posing beside their new to them Martin 242s.
March 9, 2022
CYOB Inbox: Shade on Miami, the Nerd responds
Dear Andy Adams: I am writing in response to your article on the Miami International Boat Show. We have just gotten back from the show and to say we were disappointed is a major understatement.
February 23, 2022
POTW: Friends in Florida
We are boaters in Florida, and have been for the last 50 years. Most of journeys are local which is the Miami Beach area. But over the years we have taken our boat to Key West, FL., Jacksonville, FL., Indiantown, FL. and the Bahamas.
February 8, 2022
POTW: SeaSpray masterpiece
We got this beauty from Don Snell of the Sea Spray Class in Alberta who proudly reminds us “the SeaSpray is an excellent one person catamaran with numerous advantages over other catamaran classes.
January 26, 2022
POTW: January 27, 2022
Our Photo of the Week is a good one, but it comes from our correspondent D Danger, currently in Spain so who knows where it originated. The other thing is that these boats are being squeezed out on the start, but no one appears to be screaming or panicking to the level we might expect.
January 12, 2022
POTW: Crew couture redux
Boredom created by the latest lock-in has left us digging through the basement apparent from this clipping sent our way by Roger Renaud, whose crew from years ago, Rob Cochrane, was the winner in the 1984 Best Dressed Sailor Award. Timeless fashion.
December 22, 2021
POTW: Photo of the Season
We have had Christmas tree photos in years past, but this topper says it all. Like the traditional star atop the tree, this windex guides us in right direction all year long.
December 8, 2021
CYOB Inbox: My anode generates some galvanic thoughts
To: CYonboard@kerrwil.com, interesting you noted ‘But, with a boat you’re on a new, only-vaguely understood path a lot of the time. Like sourcing, changing and understanding a new anode.
November 10, 2021
POTW: Rockin’ on
This meme-type picture came to us from Dennis McCallum of St Catherines ON who has earned the right to relax. A sailor for years and years here, all over the US east coast and beyond, Dennis is now re-building an Albin trawler and switching to the power side of life.
November 10, 2021
CYOB Inbox: November 11, 2021
Hi Mike, My name is Sergey (59 y.o.) and I’m cruising on Georgian Bay on Jeanneau SO379 for 7 years (late starter), considering owning a cat on the Caribbean somewhere upon retiring (~5 yrs.)
October 27, 2021
CYOB Inbox: October 28, 2021
I’m a Past Commander of Richmond Squadron and have taught boating for CPS for 20 + years. I suggest to you that all electronic navigational instruments, including GPS, are not our enemies.