Oct 10, 2024
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4 Decembre 2025 Grâce à nos cartes cadeaux numériques, vos amis passionnés de navigation pourront choisir parmi une multitude de cours de navigation ou obtenir un abonnement qui leur donnera droit à de nombreuses réductions. De plus, c’est vous qui êtes aux commandes : choisissez la date à laquelle vous souhaitez que la carte numérique arrive…
4 Decembre 2025 Avez-vous trouvé l’endroit idéal pour passer la nuit ? Avez-vous pris le canot pneumatique pour aller chercher des collations sur la rive ? Avez-vous fait une randonnée jusqu’à un belvédère qui vous a coupé le souffle (dans le bon sens du terme, pas à cause d’un ours) ! Nous voulons tout savoir…
4 Decembre 2025 Notre cours en ligne sur la navigation astronomique commence le 6 janvier 2026. Idéal pour les mois calmes de l’hiver. Apprenez des notions clés telles que : Cours dispensé par un instructeur, les places sont limitées. Inscrivez-vous ICI. Disponible uniquement en anglais.
December 4, 2025 With our Digital Gift Cards, your boat-lovin’ buds can choose from a bounty of Boating Courses or snag a Membership that comes with a treasure trove of boating discounts. Plus, you’re in the captain’s seat – pick the date you want the digital card to sail right into their inbox! Buy our…
December 4, 2025 Did you find the perfect overnight spot? Dinghy to shore for snacks? Hike to a lookout that made you gasp (in a wow way, not a bear way)? We want to see it all! We’re creating the ultimate map of Canada’s secret boating gems — so future boaters can find the good…
December 4, 2025 Our online course on celestial navigation begins on January 6, 2026. Ideal for the quiet winter months. Learn key concepts such as: Instructor-led course, spaces are limited. Register HERE.
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.
