The Nanaimo News Bulletin reports: Boaters stranded on Snake Island rescued by helicopter. Two men are lucky to be safe after rough weather stranded them on Snake Island Saturday. The men, who set out from Gabriola Island in a 2.4-metre rowboat, were reported missing just after 4 p.m. [Source: sorry, article no longer available.] Yeah, [...]
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If you’re a Gabriola boater, tell me: is your boat vessel large enough to have its own life raft? If it is, maybe you’ll want a to keep an eye on this story: Life Raft Makes Sea Water Drinkable. Pretty cool idea! Of course, the way it rains around here for much of the year… [...]
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Ah, Gabriola Passage — the current, she does run strong there. From the Nanaimo News Bulletin: Two rescued from waters off Gabriola. A fishing expedition turned horribly wrong for a Cedar resident and his friend Wednesday morning when their boat capsized in the waters off Gabriola Island. (…) The fishermen ran into trouble in the [...]
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If I had the ability (and workshop space) to build a boat, I might build one like this: the skin-on-frame Adirondack guide boat. Doesn’t it look fantastic? It would be perfect for puttering about in the waters around Gabriola.
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The Daily News has published a rather odd article about Green Wharf. Mudge Islanders are a step closer to local control of Green’s Landing Wharf. Negotiations are underway between Public Works and Government Services Canada and the Regional District of Nanaimo to resolve the issue of upkeep for the only dock on Mudge. Um, on [...]
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You’re leaving Silva Bay or Pages in your sailboat, thinking about the hurried pace of the world. You wish things like international shipping still happened at the speed of sail. Oh wait – what’s this article from the Guardian? Modern cargo ships slow to the speed of the sailing clippers. The world’s largest cargo ships [...]
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A fine way to begin one’s day.
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Knots. You want to know the cool ones, whether you’re tying up at Silva Bay or roping in your Gabriola garden in a (futile) attempt to keep the deer out. Animated knots to the rescue! Is very fun. Seeing the bowline again for the first time in many years brings back an awful lot of [...]
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OK, kids, I dare you to circumnavigate Gabriola Island in a bouncy castle. If some Brits can float across Lake Garda in a bouncy castle, then surely we can one-up them. Yes? Yes!
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Now here’s what I’d like to do: sail from Gabriola to Vancouver and back again, without getting into some horrible disaster. Never mind that I don’t have a boat — the bigger problem is that I don’t have the skills a boater ought to have. (I’m not stupid enough to blunder out onto the sea [...]
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