Feb 22, 2016
The options for chartering in Cape Breton just took a giant leap forward with the arrival of Sailing CBI’s beautiful new 42’ Alpha catamaran. The Bras d’Or Lakes provide some of the best inland sailing anywhere in the world, but until now chartering options have been limited. Company CEO Paul Jamieson tells us they are getting great response as they gear up for their first full season.
Class Afloat has established the Class Afloat ‘Young Sailor Scholarship’ to assist one student – endorsed by their sailing school, sail training program or yacht club – to participate in the extraordinary educational experience of attending high school while sailing aboard a majestic square-rigged tall ship…
May I introduce the website Cruising-Cape-Breton.info that I maintain with the support of others in the cruising community.
Transport Canada is considering requiring the use of engine cut-off switches and is asking for comments on this proposal. This requirement may be of concern to boaters of motorized vessels 8 metres or less in length. Comment periods is open to May 19, 2023.
It’s nearly March and the optimists among us view that as nearly spring. Even as the snowdrifts melt, boats and boating are definitely in the news as this CYOB issue illustrates. Seemingly out of nowhere, Ontario Place boaters have been temporarily evicted and are reacting unhappily.
By Andy Adams
The Pursuit S 268 Sport centre console is a do-it-all kind of boat with a solid sense of style. Centre console designs have been developed for the southern blue water sport fishing enthusiasts (and this boat would raise fish with the best of them) but the Pursuit S 268 Sport centre console offers far more utility and enjoyment than just fishing.
Ron and Pat Reder started out in October 1984 across the road from where they are right now on the Bayfield River in Bayfield ON. The store front was about 10 x 20 and the rest of that side of the building was a stock room, wood finishing room, then behind that was more back stock and the lunchroom. Expanding every few years for the store front, then moving over to this new building five years ago, this year with Adam, Shelley, and Holly are carrying on the business.
