Coast Life and Style

07/03/2025

Farmstand fun ⚓️⛵️🛟 I hope the land dinghy is enjoyed by young and old this summer.

Driftwood boats in summer colours, restock summer 2025 pirate fun jars coming to the farmstand soon 🏴‍☠️

07/03/2025

Check it out! 🐋

It's ready! The Whale-Safe Boating course is NOW available! Whether you paddle, sail, or motor in coastal British Columbia, this course is for YOU.

Launched today, this free, online course is a comprehensive, one-stop resource that fulfills a critical need by addressing the safety of BOTH marine mammals and boaters. It helps recreational boaters stay safe and legal around marine mammals —while also enhancing their enjoyment of our spectacular coast and contributions to marine mammal conservation.

By taking the course and spreading the word, YOU are helping contribute to a culture of Whale-Safe Boating on our coast.

See www.WhaleSafeBoating.org
🚣🏼‍♀️ 🛶 ⛵️ 🚤
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💥 BONUS: The first 100 participants to complete the course will receive a free Whale Warning Flag—a signal to others that whales are in the area and the need to heighten vigilance, slow down, and potentially alter course.
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✅ Details:
- The dynamic, online course is 90 minutes long
- Made possible by Transport Canada’s Boater Safety Contribution Program and developed with input from an advisory committee of experts in boating, paddling, education, marine mammals, and regulatory policy
- Narrated with the option of close captioning
- Can be paused, resumed, and referred back to at any time.
- Certificate of completion 🎓
- Downloadable resources
- Optional supplemental module includes details about marine mammal species in coastal BC, plus Basking Sharks and Leatherback Turtles

- Advisory Committee members included representation from:
-- Transport Canada
-- Fisheries and Oceans Canada
-- Parks Canada
-- Sea Kayak Guides Alliance of BC - SKGABC
-- Cetus Research & Conservation Society
-- Boating BC Association
-- CanBoat / NautiSavoir
-- Ocean Wise
-- Georgia Strait Alliance
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Ali Joy Gladwell Molly Fraser Morrow

07/03/2025

Some nights it’s really nice to be tied to a dock 🛟

07/03/2025

I love reading old annuals and this advertisements is quite on point.

07/02/2025

Happy Canada Day from paradise 🇨🇦🦫⚓️

06/29/2025

I love them all! Dorothy is a fixture on my blazer and now I will have a fleet.

06/27/2025

Tractor grooming and towing.

06/27/2025

Traffic sights when passing Nanaimo

06/26/2025

Weekend of fun at Thrash Regatta and especially exciting to welcome friends new boat to the RVic fleet❤️🇨🇦 Racing photo thanks to Andrew Madding, Min was sailing incognito, can you spot her?!

06/26/2025

Fantastic! Our lightning is heading to the big city.

Lightning class returns to RVYC ⛵
RSVP here: https://www.royalvan.com/default.aspx?p=.NETEventView&ID=3892759&qfilter=&title=&type=0&ssid=334592&chgs=

06/25/2025

The Lightning NA’s would sure be fun. We raced the Canadians event in Vancouver three years ago.

Lightning NAs 2025 Carolina Yacht Club Wrightsville Beach NC event details.

06/25/2025

Cramming in all the jobs before cruising 😁