LOOR 300 2016 is Fast Approaching
July 23, 2026 Congratulations to Peter Wickwire and Team Storm from Chester YC, including Holly MacMillan, Dan MacMillan, Andrew Chisholm and Henry Simms, who won the 2026 International One Design World Championship , held June 13-19 in Marblehead, MA (USA) out of 12 boats. To say the regatta was challenging would be an understatement: the…
July 23, 2026 Since its inception the Lake Ontario 300 has grown in both crew allowance and race length. While there are still double-handed and solo entries, there are a number of boats that race fully-crewed. Both the full and optional shorter course run through entirely Canadian waters. A total of 53 teams took part in…
July 23, 2026 Canadian 49erFX sailors Antonia and Georgia Lewin-LaFrance from Chester, NS, won their second gold medal in a row at a major international competition, this time at the 2026 49er, 49erFX and Nacra 17 European Championships held July 7-12 in Eckernförde, Germany. After winning gold two weeks ago at the fourth Sailing Grand…
July 9, 2026 A Canadian team from Vancouver, including Rory Walsh, Andre Deseau and Gustave Deseau, won the 2026 Lightning Youth World Championship held June 22-26 in Järvenpää, Finland. Two other Canadian teams also took part in the event including 16 boats: Cameron Whalley, Teagan Hansen and Monica Walsh, representing Thunder Bay’s Temple Reef Sailing…
photos: Gerry Doyle July 9, 2026 The historic waters of the Bay of Quinte recently welcomed 48 Sharks for world-class sailing as the Bay of Quinte Yacht Club (BQYC) proudly hosted the 2026 Shark 24 World Championship Regatta from June 27 through July 2, 2026. The prestigious international event highlighted BQYC’s milestone 150th anniversary celebrations. Sanctioned by…
July 9, 2026 Port Credit Yacht Club (PCYC), home to one of Canada’s largest youth sailing programs, will host more than 1,000 youth sailors (ages 8–22) from Canada and the United States across three major competitive regattas taking place July 15–26. These events represent one of the largest annual gatherings of youth competitive sailing in…










By Andy Adams
If you’ve already had firsthand experience with a pontoon, you will easily understand the appeal of the Bennington 22 MSB. But if you haven’t, let’s start by reviewing a few of the reasons why pontoon boats have become top sellers in markets across North America.
Pontoon boats began in the early 1950s as basically four steel drums lashed to a frame. They were not unlike the log rafts of ancient cultures and not much more sophisticated at first.

By Mathew Channer
Interior British Columbia might not be as famous for recreational boating as Canada’s Great Lakes, yet it is no less a world-class boating destination. The mountains offer their own flavour of marine adventure with their series of long, deep ribbon lakes, and there is perhaps no area that embodies this more uniquely than the iconic Okanagan basin in southern B.C. One could be forgiven for assuming this valley was purpose-built for nautical fun, with a few delightful perks thrown in to make the area entirely irresistible (wine-tasting, anyone?).