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The World of Sailing

Hello, my name is Ashley Wallace. I am a Vancouver based photographer who recently started volunteering at the Royal Vancouver Yacht Club. Some of the club members and I, along with the help of The...

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Match Racing

Summer is finally upon us and the sailing community is a very active place to be. A regatta, which is a series of boat races, is starting this Saturday at the Royal Vancouver Yacht Club (RVYC).  For...

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Match Racing Results

What a difference a day makes: Saturday’s hot and sunny conditions changed to thunder clouds on Sunday’s second day of racing at the RoyalVan’s Summer Grade 4 Invitational Match Race Regatta presented...

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Training Seminar

Anyone looking to learn more about Match Racing there will be a  5 part, 90 minute series of seminars to teach you more about the game starting this Monday July 23rd at the Royal Vancouver Yacht Club....

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Canadian Sailors at 2012 Olympics

Canada has yet to bring home a gold medal from a sailing event so far in Olympic history. We hope to change that this year as eleven Sailors from Canada will be competing in the 2012 London Summer...

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No Gold for Canada

As the 2012 London Summer Olympics come to an end, Canadian Sailors sadly come home empty handed. Great efforts were made by all and a huge congratulations goes out to all those who made it to the...

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Help Save Canadian Coast Guard Kits Base

There has been mounting concern over the closure of the Kitsilano Coast Guard base since the Federal Government made its announcement in May 2012 to suspend service. The Kitsilano base is one of the...

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Sailing San Francisco

“One of the reasons you love me is because I’m spontaneous….right?”, these were the words out of my partners mouth one day after I returned home from work. “Oh no, what have you done?!” was my...

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The Valiant 40

And so the search for our new home begins. Many days have been spent trolling through Craigslist, Sailboatlistings and Yachtworld; a few of the larger databases for used boats. Looking through page...

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America’s Cup finally has a winner

In the history of comebacks I think this one takes the cake, or should I say the Cup. After trailing 8-1 the defending Oracle Team USA came back to tie things up on Tuesday with 6 consecutive wins...

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Boats, boats and more boats!

The past three months have been spent searching through used sailboat databases, contacting owners and looking at few boats. Other than a Serendipity called Hooked and a CT 41 we came up empty handed....

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Long Beach and San Diego boat tour

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. That is precisely what we have been doing. Across our searches we found the vast majority of listings to be in Southern California. Instead of letting...

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The Flying Dutchman

We expected a weekend of anticipation after we put the offer in on a beautiful Hans Christian late Friday afternoon. Thinking we wouldn’t hear back until Monday we knew it had to be bad news when two...

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Living the Dream

We’ve been on the boat for over 8 months now. First of all l must say, we are in love. Linnea is beautiful and as John likes to say “feels like a warm hug” every time you step aboard. Emery Cove Yacht...

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Town Talk: Full-size polo field and trophy are ready for 2018

LITTLE CUP, BIG SETTING: That setting is an eight-hectare Delta property near Boundary Bay for which Jay Garnett, Paul Sullivan, and Tony and Claudia Tornquist paid $2 million in 2016. Last year, they...

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Town Talk: Juno participants celebrated beforehand

ROCK ON: Among them, Bruce Allen’s firm Bruce Allen Talent, Sam Feldman’s The Feldman Agency and his and Steve Macklam’s Feldman Macklam Management handle many of Canada’s top musicbiz performers....

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Town Talk: Courage To Come Back Awards honour five, raise $3 million

ALL THE WAY: For its 20th annual running, Coast Mental Health’s Courage to Come Back Awards banquet dramatically moved forward. The Vancouver Convention Centre event drew 1,800 attendees compared to...

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