Share this!Alert Bay on Cormorant Island in beautiful British Columbia is located just south of Port Hardy on Vancouver Island. An Island here, an Island there, everywhere an Island! With a population of approximately 1,500 persons year-round, this is a sleepy coastal community. I am pleasantly surprised as we pull up to the docks to enquire about moorage, brightly coloured sea going vessels of...
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Share this! We cast away lines from the Shearwater dock and head inland, northeast along the great shoreline of British Columbia, Canada. I am forever in awe of this country that is my home. A fresh breeze riffles the surface of the sea and blows away the horror that clings to me still. A bereaved father left the burden of his grief with me as he recounted the nightmare of losing his daughter to...
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Share this!A curved horizon is visible at Milbanke Sound. Perfectly calm seas curve around rounded rock Islets, the water rolls around the edges like drops of mercury, thickly clinging to the outlines of the rocks, threatening to envelope them in a flash should a wave pass by. I look back at the Captain, we have the opportunity to head for open seas here at Milbanke Sound. New to us is our 33...
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Share this!Captain Rick Cousins and myself, Dawn Kostelnik are onboard the 33’ C&C sailboat Starduster. This is a maiden voyage on this new to us sailboat. We are travelling the inside passage of the B.C. West Coast from Kitimat to Powell River, B.C. After spending the night in Bishop Bay Hot springs we were reluctant to haul anchor this beautiful still morning. Now we glide through mist,...
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Share this!We have traversed the shallow seawater slew from Minnette Bay in Kitimat, B.C., onboard our 33’ C&C Sailboat, the Starduster. We now find ourselves in the deep green waters of Douglas Channel unable to go any faster than 1800 RPM’s (equates into 4 knots, oh yahoo!) or our boat vibrates so terribly we fear we will rattle into pieces and scatter parts into the cold dark sea. Our...
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Share this!We have been offered a 33’ C&C Sailboat as trade for our beloved lady, the Audrey Eleanor. Our 1948, 54’ wooden yacht is wearing us down. For ten years we have drained the bank account attempting to maintain her in the custom she seems to demand. In turn we hoped to preserve her. She is high, high maintenance gal. Forget simply exfoliating her bottom once a year at $1,200 per haul...
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