March 12, 2026
By Jerry King
Growing up, Jerry spent many years on a boat on Canadian lakes with his grandfather inspiring him to create a lot of boating cartoons,.
Jerry also offers some great techniques for your cartooning ambitions. Get his book here
March 12, 2026 It’s not quite built yet but once it is the Keating Channel Pedestrian Bridge on Toronto’s reborn eastern waterfront will provide a striking gateway between downtown and Toronto’s new island. On track for completion in mid-2028, Keating Channel Pedestrian Bridge will bear a signature “S” shaped suspended arch connected by an array…
February 26, 2026 You don’t have to be a fanatic but it might help if you plan to sail an open catamaran in the legendary Race to Alaska (R2AK)! Jeff Williams from Orillia ON and his crew Mike Van Joy (the boat is named Snowball; the crew is known on FB as The Snowflakes) are…
February 12, 2026 The Photo of the Week is a portrait of this striking C&C Crusader 40’. The Crusader was built from 1968 till 1971 at Belleville Marine Yard, which became part of C&C Yachts Limited in 1969. Approximately a dozen were built. The Crusader was known for its exceptional light-air performance and upwind pointing…
February 12, 2026 Jerry King is one of the most published and prolific cartoonists in the world today. His client list includes The Wall St. Journal, Disney, American Greetings, and many more. Growing up, Jerry spent many years on a boat on Canadian lakes with his grandfather inspiring him to create a lot of boating…
January 22, 2026 Imagine this – you load two five-ton trucks with valuable boat gear to transport to the Boat Show for an all-important Mariners Marketplace booth. Lock up the trucks head home for sleep, but when Paul and Diane Reid, operators of Toronto chandlery, the Rigging Shoppe, headed back the next morning to transport…
January 8, 2026 Don’t Get Your Paddles Mixd-up The world’s love affair with pickleball knows no bounds and neither does our Photo of the Week The booming sport for athletes of all types is even breaking into the boating world, thanks to it’s inclusion at this year’s Toronto International Boat Show. The annual event, hosted…
By Andy Adams
There is no shortage of fun and exciting new boat designs hitting the market, but for the last few years these have been mainly outboard-powered day boats. Some are day cruisers; some are centre console fishing boats or designed for tow sports. A new live-aboard cabin boat has become a rare item these days.
So when I heard that Pride Marine in Orillia, Ontario, had a Nimbus 365 Coupe in the water, I jumped at the chance to get out on it.
By Zuzana Prochaska
I’ve been to Tahiti seven times—six on charter and once as crew for a couple of yachties. Over the 25 years that I’ve been visiting, it’s changed dramatically. Yet, inexplicably, it has also stayed the same.
Lounging on the flybridge of our Sunsail 454, I had time to think about this dichotomy as I toasted the nighttime skies of Bora Bora and specifically the Southern Cross, a constellation that never fails to hypnotize. As the Crosby, Stills & Nash (1982) tune reminds us:
…you understand now why you came this way.
