Good Weekend Weather Brings Strong Crowds in Victoria

2013 Victoria Harbour Boat Show

Good weather brought out strong weekend crowds at the BC Yacht Brokers Association Victoria Floating Boat Show April 18-21. BC’s largest floating show, in one of the coast’s most attractive settings, the event offered more than 150 boats on display on the Inner Harbour docks, along with shoreside exhibits of electronics, accessories, clothing and services.

British Columbia’s largest in the water Boat Show. Displayed new and pre-owned boats, power and sail. Over 200 boats were on display as well as a huge variety of marine services and products. Show goers were able to visit 150 boats on display as well as many booth exhibits with marine related products ranging from: electronics, sounders, radios, insurance companies, financial institutions, clothing gear, diving gear, dinghy’s and much, much more.

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2013 Victoria Harbour Boat Show

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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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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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