January weather weighs so much on a sailor. There’s ice and slush everywhere. The shorts are relegated to a storage bin in the basement. Even Corona just doesn’t taste any good during Winter. But there is much out there to set your mind alight in the world of racing. It’s summer in the southern [...]
We are the proud new owners of Nauticat. Nauticat is a PDQ 36. She is currently sitting in Little Current, and plies her trade on the waters of the North Channel, based out of Gore Bay in the capable care of Canadian Yacht Charters. No boat is perfect, but this one’s great. Reagan, Linden and [...]
While riding up to Manitoulin Island for my occasional pilgrimage to some place two gas tanks away, I came across this sight in the lineup to cross on the Chee Chee Maun. It is not often that a genuine Harley death-machine crosses my path. In the view from astern, I am pretty sure that I [...]
I looked nervously to Ryan, who would be steering (as I did not have the experience), who reassured me that he had canoed on lakes before. The first section of the river before the first portage was no lake today, but with his expert paddling we made it through dry and unscathed. http://spacingtoronto.ca/2011/07/05/paddling-the-don/