This week’s Photo of the Week brings us a boat we may see more of. This Mystic is a Florida performance boat – there’s only one dealer in Canada, Sudbury’s The Car Lot Etc.
Canadian Yachting team member Sarah from Midland, ON, sent the shot along.
I am new to boating. Bought a 2019 Ranger Tug in April followed by taking a short boating course and headed out. Spent from late May to early August in the Canadian Pacific north.
Arie and Maribeth sent us this photo from their honeymoon departing Killarney…I think they were in the Benjamins for this shot.
This shot was taken last week by Jessica Lee, a freelance photography pro, Albacore racer and part time crew. We were aboard Esprit de Corps III, one of Canada’s few internationally competing racers. Our skipper, Maxime Grimard,
It was a trip 2 or 3 years ago, and all 4 boats traveled up to the Killarney area in a flotilla--Sea'chelle, Unwinder, Gillian, and After Sailin'. Perfect weather and beautiful scenery, which some of the group had never seen. Five of us climbed up to the very top of that ridge above Covered Portage. You can just see my shoe in the foreground.
Congratulations to everyone who sent along a wonderful Canada Day photo. Fabulous photos and what a variety. We now have an annual tradition!
Just as you were, the people who labour in the trenches at CY were out on the water with their families over the Canada Day weekend too. And they took some photos that we are sharing for our Photos of the Week.
Before we announce the contest, here’s a fine shot of very interesting transom your editor took on a recent junket. Love it!!
This is a fine video Our correspondent Patrick Festing-Smith of Mango Charters alerted us to this very informative, if totally irreverent, video highlighting a potentially scary ecological problem.
The photo of us in our dinghy was taken from the shores of Beausoleil Island. We were on our way to Honeymoon Bay in the north of the Island and we were attending a Great Lakes Cruising Club Rendezvous for Georgian Bay boaters. Jan is "Admiral of the Fleet" and I am "Bilge Billy.”
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