Pacific Yachting

Northwest Marine Trade Association Announces Job Fair at Seattle Boat Show

Jan 20, 2015

On Monday, January 26 from 09:00 until 11:00, the Northwest Marine Trade Association will be hosting a job fair at the Century Link Event Center. In attendance will be 20 local marine-related businesses with 100+ full-time positions plus many seasonal...

Industry News

Highlights from Aspen Power Cat's Van Isle Circumnavigation

Jan 20, 2015

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Currents

Dreamspeaker Guides develop six handy trip planning charts for the waters of the Inside Passage

Jan 14, 2015

Following requests from numerous boaters, Laurence Yeadon-Jones spent over a year developing six handy Trip/Passage Planning Charts to complement their Dreamspeaker Cruising Guide Series. His practical approach was to build a set of workable charts layered from current chart mapping data...

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Monte Carlo 5 Flybridge

Jan 14, 2015

It was the striking hull colour—called aqua blue—of the MC 5 flybridge yacht that first caught our eyes. Some people love it, some don’t, but we think it is refreshing to see a company with the guts to introduce a...

Boat Reviews

Ocean Cruiser Speaker Series

Jan 12, 2015

The Bluewater Cruising Association will continue its management of the Ocean Cruising Adventures Speaker Series in 2015, with sponsorship support from Pacific Yachting. Anne Brevig, circumnavigator and author of 9 Years on the 7 Seas, has lined up another group...

Events

Take Your Best Shot 2015

Jan 12, 2015

It’s Pacific Yachting’s 10th Annual Photo Contest! This is a grand occasion indeed, and appropriately for such a grand occasion, we received the most submissions to date with hundreds of worthy photos coming through via email. Unfortunately, there isn’t enough...

Contests

Bavaria Easy 9.7

Jan 12, 2015

Comparing Bavaria’s new Easy 9.7 with the MH-31, it’s obvious that Bavaria Yachts has approached the starter boat conundrum from an entirely different direction. The Easy 9.7 is unabashedly promoted as a pared back version of the company’s popular Cruiser...

Boat Reviews

The Mystery of the Acania

Jan 8, 2015

Whether the Acania belonged to Al Capone or not is up for debate, but there is no debating that it is a beautiful classic yacht. So keep your eyes out for it as you cruise the coast

Marlow Hunter 31

Jan 8, 2015

Revealed for the first time at the big October sailboat show in Annapolis, the 2015 Marlow-Hunter 31 will be taking over from the existing 27 as the smallest cruiser in this line. Since David Marlow purchased Hunter Marine in 2012,

Boat Reviews

Finding the Franklin Ship Erebus

Dec 30, 2014

Since the finding in September this year of the lost Franklin expedition ship Erebus, Parks Canada has been busy doing interviews and public presentations on its historic discovery. An illustrated presentation by Marc-Andre Bernier, chief of the underwater archaeology team...

Currents

BC Ferries Adjusts Southern Gulf Islands Schedule

Dec 30, 2014

BC Ferries is reminding customers of the Tsawwassen-Southern Gulf Islands route that service will be removed for nine Wednesdays from January 7, 2015 to March 4, 2015. During those Wednesdays, customers may access the Southern Gulf Islands using the Tsawwassen-Swartz Bay route and...

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Model Making

Dec 17, 2014

How a decade’s old dream can turn into the ultimate winter project

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