Message From The Editor
A Fresh Look
Canadian Yachting's website is offering up a fresh, new look and feel to our readers.
With a graceful new colour scheme and easier, more intuitive navigation, we hope to provide you with a web experience that delivers yachting content in a rich but simple way to you. In addition to the new visuals we are beginning an exciting new online segment called 'Ask the Experts' with Rob MacLeod, The Informed Boater. Rob is eagerly awaiting for your boating questions of all kinds that he will take to the experts in each topic area and will create video responses that will be posted online.
Please drop us a line anytime with your questions and your feedback. We love to hear from our readers!
Terri Hodgson
Online Editor
Canadian Yachting magazine
thodgson@kerrwil.com
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Next Issue of CY
What's In December's Canadian Yachting?
Starting with two interesting 'reads' about being lost in fog, the December Canadian Yachting magazine brings our readers a definitive Guide To The Latest Marine Electronics chosen for their capabilities to get you home safely in dense fog.
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Ask the Experts
Got a Boating Question? Ask the Experts
This is your opportunity to help Rob MacLeod, The Informed Boater,help you and other boaters seek out that more difficult to find information.
What questions do you have that Rob can ask the experts and put into a 3-minute video? These videos will appear in future issues of this CY newsletter.
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Events
The Trent-Severn Waterway closed for another year on October 13, 2014
Parks Canada encourages the public to use caution in and around canal structures and channels. From mid-October to the end of May, the canal's lock stations are closed and their use is at one's own risk. Unmarked hazards may exist. Wet leaves, ice, and snow may remain on stairs and walkways and ice conditions on the waterway can vary. Over the non-navigation season, aids to navigation may be missing, off-station or inoperable until next spring.
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Preserving Boating History
Kingston Marine Museum Hopes To Stay Afloat
Long before Kingston Penitentiary was closed down by the federal government, its fate left swinging in the winds off Lake Ontario, there was the sad tale of the Marine Museum of the Great Lakes. It, too, is prime waterfront property that is owned -- and unwanted -- by our Ottawa leaders. It also has a significant contamination problem, the extent of which is not fully known except to Ottawa's bureaucrats.
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Sailing Events
Friendly US rivalry on the Island
St. Barth Cata Cup should be one of the most exciting in the history of the event. Top international sailors like Leff Dahl, Franck Cammas, Emmanuel Boulogne, Patrick Demesmaeker and Patrice Ivaldihave all signed-up for this year's edition of the race. For sailors Michael Easton and Matthew Whitehead, it will be an opportunity to put all past rivalry aside since they will be teaming up for the regatta.
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2014 Sail Canada Awards
Nominations are being accepted for the 2014 Sail Canada Awards! All sailors and their supporters are invited to participate in recognizing Canada's top sailors via the Annual Sail Canada Awards. Now is your chance to nominate outstanding sailors, athletes, coaches, instructors, race officials, volunteers and events that have contributed to the sport over the past year.
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Sail Nova Scotia presents the Atlantic Sailing Conference November 22
Registration is now open for the first ever Atlantic Sailing Conference to take place Saturday, November 22 at Citadel High School in Halifax. Topics already confirmed include; fundraising, insurance & risk management issues, developing an able sail program, hosting regattas, getting your program into schools, and increasing participation for 16-24 year olds, and so much more. Keynote speaker will be Nicholas Hayes who wrote Saving Sailing, which discussed the decline of participation in sailing and what we should be doing to increase numbers. A full schedule will be posted shortly.
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Education
Mercury Marine and Florida Sport Fishing TV educate boaters on invasive species
Mercury Marine, the world leader in commercial and recreational marine propulsion and technology, has partnered with Captain Mike Genoun of Florida Sport Fishing TV to educate boaters and divers on invasive species and the irreparable damage they can cause to the ecosystem. You can view Genoun's message on the Mercury Marine YouTube page
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Accolades
Alistair Murray Recognized with First Annual United States Sailboat Show Sailing Industry Distinguished Service Award
Keynote speaker Ken Read, considered one of the world's most accomplished and celebrated sailors, spoke on the state of the industry and emphasized the growing enthusiasm for all levels of sailing that is being generated by increased attention on high performance racing in all age groups. The night culminated in the presentation of the first annual Sailing Industry Distinguished Service Award, intended to honor a recipient who has distinguished him or herself through continued and unselfish service to the overall advancement of the sailing industry.
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| Oct 23, 2014 • Volume 3 • Issue 20 |
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