New Brush Makes Cleaning Rope Super Simple

Line Cleaner

When dock lines and ropes get grimy and grungy, they’re not always so easy to clean. But, with Shurhold Industries’ new Flexible Rope & Cord Brush, the process just got more convenient.

This new brush is the best way to clean 1/2″ to 1″ diameter rope. Simple to use and easy to store, the flexible Rope & Cord brush is ideal for use on twisted and braided lines and other tubular items, such as rub rails, hoses and shore power cords.

Users just wrap the Flexible Rope & Cord Brush around rope with bristles facing the rope. Then, they hold the brush firmly to get contact completely around the rope and brush along the length of the rope to remove debris, dirt and mould.

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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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