August 22, 2018
POTW: We need a boatload
We don’t want to invoke panic, but our next edition of Photo of the Week will be in September. That means that the summer photo season is drawing to a close. In a couple of weeks, the coloured leaves change the backdrop of your summer boat shots so this is the week.
August 9, 2018
Photo of the Week: Pirate madness
This quayside shot came in from Dartmouth Yacht Club (DYC) taken at the Pirates of Halifax Harbour event last month.
August 8, 2018
To All Who Care About Olympic Sailing
The Olympic Qualification Regatta is now being held in Aarhus Denmark with unlimited entries. That means that any sailor in the world can enter.
July 25, 2018
POTW: Two for the price of none
POTW input is irresistible, so this time you get a couple. And don’t forget to send your own Photo of the Week to us at cyonboard@kerrwil.com with POTW in the subject line. Thanks!
July 25, 2018
CY Inbox: stores and more
I sail out of Whitby Yacht Club, Lake Ontario. I do all my shopping and the club’s buying wherever possible at Port Whitby Marine Supplies.
July 11, 2018
Spinnaker Techniques for C&C 29 Mk 2 – Alchemist 4-Person Team Launching, Gybing, Dousing, Re-Launching
In Etobicoke Yacht Club night races the first Spinnaker set is usually at the first upwind mark on a starboard tack.
July 11, 2018
POTW: July 12, 2018 -Suitable for framing!
This photo from a CPS member shows how talented boaters are. Brenda Cochrane from Kelowna BC, a member of the Okanagan Squadron, Western Canada Inland District…
June 27, 2018
POTW: Boating Fashion!!
Paul and Keith are nothing if not fashion icons. Cat Ward of Toronto caught them on the dock.
June 27, 2018
CY Inbox: Glenmore SC speaks up
“Melanie and Allan Macdonald are self-taught sailors who owned a 10’ single hull and 17’ Hobie Cat in Alberta.
May 23, 2018
CYOB Inbox: May 24, 2018
On one hand, I remember speaking this winter to the man in charge of sailing at the resort we stayed at this winter in Antigua.
May 9, 2018
Photo of the week: “It never gets old”
In honour of Launch Day, our POTW this time comes from Wendy Loat in Port Credit. This shot, taken last week, celebrates the more that five decades of the hitting the water in the spring ritual for her 60s plywood Thunderbird, Looney Tunes.
April 25, 2018
Photo of the week: April 26, 2018
On the Easter Weekend, the Sidney North Saanich Yacht Club from Vancouver Island, had its first cruise of the season to Port Browning Marina on North Pender Island. I snapped this photo on Easter Monday as I was heading up the dock to help set up for the final breakfast.
April 25, 2018
CY Inbox: Reaction to Henderson
Oh Paul, you are so on the point with this text as you were with the “World Sailing has it wrong” article. It is a disaster and drives me crazy
April 11, 2018
POTW: April 12, 2018
Our Photo of the Week is actually a Video of the Week that came our way from Rick Shaddock of Squamish Yacht Club. What a venue.
March 20, 2018
POTW: March 22, 2018
We were all set with this week’s POTW when a real stunner came in as part of a story on the Blind Channel resort in BC.
March 20, 2018
CY Inbox: Boat names and waterfront games
We received a couple more boat names – the photo came courtesy reader Janice Fleischmann – and an interesting response to our story on the Oakville Yacht Squadron’s recent talks with Town Council.
March 7, 2018
CY Inbox: Seas the opportunity
Have your say. Send an email to CYonboard@kerrwil.com and share you opinion on boat names or anything else on the water!
March 7, 2018
POTW: Meet an enthusiast. Make that Fanatic.
Stephen and Fran Hill are our most prolific POTW contributors. So far we have received at least three dozen beauties.
February 14, 2018
POTW: February 22, 2018
I took this photo in July 2017 from our boat Ginger which was anchored and stern tied in Mouat Bay near Shearwater. This wolf was very curious about our stern line and actually gave it a couple of hard tugs!
February 7, 2018
Olympic Sailing – an important perspective
Just to put it in historical time warp I was a World Sailing Vice President 1976-1994 and President from 1994-2004 representing Canada and the RCYC as well as Olympic Technical Delegate from L.A. 1984 – Athens 2004.
February 6, 2018
POTW – Desolation sound in summer
Photo of the Week is our opportunity to get creative with cameras, phones or even a GoPro!
January 24, 2018
POTW: January 25, 2018
Great icicles! This is not what one expects from the tropical climes of BC. It’s a nice winter Photo of the Week, though.
January 24, 2018
CYOB Inbox January 25, 2018
The dockage rates posted on the Cheticamp HA website gave the dockage rate for transient recreational vessels as $55.00 +HST per night, as posted in 2013.
January 10, 2018
POTW: Salt Spring sensational
Welcome to Photo of the Week 2018. If you are not familiar with this wonderful feature (What???!!!) it’s an opportunity for you to share your fine camera work with the boating nation.
December 19, 2017
POTW December 21, 2017
For our last Photo of the Week in 2017, I have picked some nice shots we received – one from the east coast and a couple from the west.
December 12, 2017
Photo of the Week: December 14, 2017
Your boat is tucked away for the winter, but there may still be a few un-invited guests.
November 8, 2017
POTW: A Monk and a Pup
This Photo of the Week sequence from Chris Chahley and Kathy Coyle explains the whole boat thing. If you don’t love these shots, the time has come for you to switch to bowling!!!
October 24, 2017
Photo of the week: Somewhere in NS
The off season is suddenly upon us. Yikes! We need your photos more than ever to keep us thinking boats all winter.
October 24, 2017
CYOB Inbox: Remembering George Cuthbertson
George inspired me in 1966 at a conference on Lake Couchiching with his seminar on displacement hull design; in particular the new “Red Jacket” that he was designing to go faster than the CCA Rule of the day calculated, by about.
October 11, 2017
CYOB Inbox: October 12, 2017
Thank you for bringing attention to bow bulbs. Actually we designed the bulb for that vessel, the Drettmann explorer yacht.
September 27, 2017
Photo of the Week… check the bow bulb on this baby
I took this shot at the boot boat show in Dusseldorf last time I went. They have some pretty big boats in the mega-yachts section.
September 27, 2017
CYOB Inbox: Rewards of Mentorship
Hi John, I am sending along an article about the rewards our crew has felt after 6 years of mentorship with a young person out of our Sarnia Yacht Club Junior Sailing program.
August 22, 2017
POTW: Canada Games Gimli in Photos
This time our photos come from Gimli where Katie Coleman Nicoll was on the scene. She’s an esteemed sailing judge, a fearless reporter and a fine photographer.
July 25, 2017
CY Inbox July 27: Thumbs down from the left coast
Why not just call it Lake Ontario Yachting?
July 25, 2017
Ooooh baby – First time on a boat ever!
A dear friend brought her 8 month old daughter aboard my 25 foot keelboat…and baby was right at home! Next…figuring out how to rig up a jolly-jumper!
July 11, 2017
POTW July 13
This shot came from our ace reporter Johnny G out in Stoney Creek, ON, taken at the Newport YC Canada Day festivities. It says it all!! That’s what a Photo of the Week should be…lol
June 20, 2017
Photo of the Week goes International!
This week’s POTW comes from across the pond. Who knew we had a European audience