What’s Coming in CY’s 2015 February Boat Show Issue?

Feb CY Issue

This year our famous Boat Show issue is chock full of new boats with an emphasis on the ‘Game Changer’ aspect of what is new in design.  Innovative new designs from Back Cove, Cruisers, Hanse, Monte Carlo, Chris-Craft, Beneteau, Four Winns, Jeanneau, Lagoon and Boston Whaler are all jam packed into this issue with new features that promise to change the culture of boating in Canada.

Destination showcases include a PWC tour through Muskoka’s ‘Malibu of the North’ to a unique Ocean Harvest charter along the BC Coast. Learn about the rich history and vibrant current community at Nova Scotia’s Chester Yacht Club. Increase your boat’s top speed and efficiency by re-powering, featuring Volvo Penta diesels. Luxuriate in a catamaran meander through the tropical paradise of the BVI’s.

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Neptunus 650F Review

Neptunus 650F 400

By Andy Adams

Over the years Canadian Yachting has had the pleasure of doing several boat review articles on new Neptunus models and we are familiar with the qualities that Neptunus is famous for. They have all been exceptional yachts, but this is the one I would most want to own myself. It’s a personal choice and a matter of taste as to whether you would prefer to have a sedan express model or a flybridge but in my opinion, the flybridge layout offers some wonderful attributes.

We met with Neptunus Managing Director Jan Willem De Jong this past fall to take the new Neptunus 650F out in Lake Ontario. 

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Destinations

The Other Virgin Islands

Sunset off St John

By Mark Stevens

I was first seduced by the United States Virgin Islands during a ferry ride from St. Thomas to Tortola to begin one of our earliest British Virgin Islands charters nearly twenty years ago.

A perfect sunset off St. John with St. Thomas views for backdrop.

Clearing Pillsbury Sound, surrounded by voluptuous emerald mountains as the ferry sliced through royal blue waters, I was struck by the unspoiled ambiance of St. John, the island gliding past our starboard beam and the irresistible charm of a village called Cruz Bay visible from our quarter stern.

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