Mosquito Creek Boat Show 2015 Underway

Mosquito Creek Show 2015

 

Here’s what you’ll miss if you don’t stop by:

        • * Off-site Parking with shuttle service to overflow parking during peak hours.  Valet Parking available.
        • * Educational and Informational Seminars will be held on the Ferry
        • * Beer Garden and Food Court will be open daily
        • * Open House for the Spirit Trail Ocean Homes, our new floating home community
        • * Our family-friendly show features our annual “Duck-Off Competition” benefiting Capilano Little Ones School
        • * Slips on the north (open water) side of the Ferry have been set-aside for sea trials
        • * Moorage is available for people who come to the show by boat: $25 per boat load per day (reservations required)
             >> Watch the video here <<

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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