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January 8, 2026 As of Dec. 31, 2025, Transport Canada has made several updates to the Pleasure Craft Licence (PCL). Beginning this year pleasure craft licences must be renewed every five years – and current lifetime licences will be gradually replaced with PCLs that must be renewed every five years. Beginning in 2028 wind-powered pleasure…
January 8, 2026 Welcome to 2026! It’s going to be a big year for all Canadian Boaters, and here at Canadian Boating we are extra excited to be celebrating our 50th anniversary! And what better way to enter this new chapter than to bring our readers one of the most innovate and exciting new developments…
The Telegraph Cove sign was painted by a teacher who lived in the cove. Now her daughter has offered to make a new one. January 8, 2026 By Eamon Irving, Assistant Editor, PY Last year began under a cloud of smoke for residents of Telegraph Cove on northern Vancouver Island. Since the fire on December 31, 2024…
January 8, 2026 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…
By Matthew Channer I’ll admit that having the best of both worlds has always sounded too good to be true. I’ve been around the industry long enough that I’m naturally sceptical of a vessel that claims mastery over two fields of boating. But I wanted to be proven wrong, and almost immediately was. The Chaparral Surf…
Richard crewing on their Olson 30. At the helm John Osborn who is the only sailor in Canada who holds an Olympic Gold, (he won it Montreal in 1976, sailing for England.) December 16, 2025 Local racer, longtime sailmaker Richard Osborn to lead sales activities for Precision Sails in Ontario. Drawing on decades of experience in…










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.