Category Archives: Adventures

The Asseance crew has been enjoying the Bonaire carnival over the past weekend and Heather has taken a lot of pictures. We hear it’s not the same as the Trinidad Carnival but still a lot of fun. See a few photos below but they have posted much more on their Flickr photo site. See the [...]

As we sit down to write this note, it is difficult to believe that another year has passed and we continue to enjoy the cruising lifestyle which keeps us on the water and in a sunny and warm climate. Last year at this time, we were in the USVIs enjoying the company of cruising friends [...]

All the people, both of them, who’ve read my travel notes about the Grenadines found them interesting, incomprehensively. They asked me to write more sailing stories. I don’t have many to tell. It’s rather embarrassing; I’ve neither sailed across the Atlantic single-handed nor have I won the America’s Cup. Be that as it may, I [...]

Hard on the heels of my winter sailing experience in BC, I went to the Grenadines to work towards my RYA Yachtmaster ticket. I went down there a week before the starting gun to visit the island. My last visit was in the late 70s. Since then, island life in Grenada has not been peaceful. [...]

Winter sailing in BC “Man overboard!” The shout was loud and clear; another man overboard, the third one that day. Wind and swell were strong. We chose a spotter, hove to, sent out a mayday, started the engine and tracked back towards the victim. It was only a drill. The victim was a buoy discreetly thrown [...]

If you’ve got a 60′ racing yacht with two bulb keels, what do you do in your spare time? Heel the boat over at 45° and go for a walk! Alex Thomson, the youngest skipper to win a round-the-world yacht race, had an interesting day:   Back story is available in this YouTube video.

Quick! What’s on the back of the Canadian dime? If you have to look and see, we’ll save you the trouble. It’s the world-famous wooden schooner Bluenose, the pride of Nova Scotia, and the fastest of her kind in the 20th century. But schooners aren’t just a relic from a bygone era. In fact, there’s a [...]

Our members travel. Some of them travel a lot. I learned this weekend of some of the travelling the active NYC match-racing sailors and umpires have been doing. I learned of some of this when I ran into Bruce Brown, who was serving as an umpire at the Canadian Match Racing ISAF Grade-3 regatta at [...]

As a member of the National Yacht Club,  I wondered if some of my fellow members may be interested in joining our group for our upcoming trip to the Amazon in Brazil. Our very own Commodore has expressed and interest in joining us. We are looking for 4 more participants to complete our fishing trip in the Amazon so [...]

George Socka captured photos of the dramatic wave action during a storm on April 28. The waves were sailing right over the breakwater, damaging two of the boats in slips that day, and apparently costing the Boulevard club a few docks. Don Williams documented the aftermath – damaged docks, and a few boats the wrong [...]