ontario sailor magazine
“ILCA Dinghy” Is New Face of World’s Most Popular Racing Boat The International Laser Class Association (ILCA) has a new name. As of now, all new, class-approved boats will be sold and raced under the ILCA Dinghy name. This announcement comes in the wake of last month’s termination of
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Ontario-based J24 sailor Rossi Milev and crew won the J/24 Midwinter Championships held in early March in Tampa, beating out 28 other competitors. It’s the second time that Milev, who is based in Mississauga, has won that regatta, also winning at the same event in 2016. Racing this time on
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The Bayview Mackinac Race hosted by Bayview Yacht Club in Detroit is expecting upwards of 200 boats on the startline of the long-distance race on July 20, 2019. The theme of this year’s 95th edition of the race, America’s longest-consecutively held freshwater sailing competition, is “keep it safe, keep it
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The times they are a changing. Instead of the old 1960s refrain of “Save the Whales”, the new refrain these days might be “Militarize the Whales.” The U.K. based newspaper The Guardian has reported that Norwegian fishermen have discovered a beluga whale behaving strangely and bothering them while they tried
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Sailing the winter blues away in the BVIs By Marc Dufour Coming from an Ontario snowstorm to Tortola in the British Virgin Islands for a charter took no time at all to adjust to the change in weather, and Darling and I felt invigorated by the beautiful conditions: Blue sky
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Sailing towards the desert These cruisers crossed the Atlantic on their Hunter 410 sailboat and were not supposed to go to Morocco in north Africa, a country that wasn’t included for coverage in their boat insurance, but they are sure glad they did. The stop was unlike anything they had
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Don’t Never Tell Nobody Nothin’ No How: The Real Story of West Coast Rum Running | Rick James “We operated perfectly legally. We considered ourselves philanthropists! We supplied good liquor to poor thirsty Americans … and brought prosperity back to the Harbour of Vancouver …”—Captain Charles Hudson At the stroke
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The Phantom Atlas: The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps | Edward Brooke-Hitching Discover the mysteries within ancient maps — Where exploration and mythology meet This richly illustrated book collects and explores the colorful histories behind a striking range of real antique maps that are all in some
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A Sea of Gold | Julian Stockwin ‘Tension surges through A Sea of Gold . . . In this rousing yarn, Stockwin again raises naval fiction to a new level’ – Quarterdeck ‘Stockwin has surpassed himself with A Sea of Gold . . . a fine, fully favoured vintage yarn’
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Stalin’s Meteorologist: One Man’s Untold Story of Love, Life and Death | Olivier Rolin The beautifully illustrated, heartbreaking story of an innocent man in a Soviet gulag, told for the first time in English.
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