Semco sails to the rescue
We found a product that lets us mostly escape the ball and chain of excessive exterior teak. Twice a year we spend a weekend splashing the the wood with teak sealer.
Category: Currents
Guide sales glitch resolved
hew! Sometimes online sales is the cat’s meow. Sometimes it’s a dyspeptic cougar. In the latter part of June, we received an email from a boater saying that PayPal refused to allow him to...
Mooring buoys at D’Arcy Island
he Gulf Islands National Park Reserve has installed two mooring buoys for public use at D’Arcy Island in Haro Strait, south of Sidney Island. Parks Canada installed the new buoys with funding from the...
Shelter from the noise
esearchers are studying the theory that kelp forests protect sensitive sea creatures by dampening ocean noise. They fear the thinning of the underwater forests will expose sea life to a sonic overload. Marine ecologist...
15 salmon farms shuttered
anadian Fisheries Minister Joyce Murray has announced the federal government will not renew licences for 15 open-net Atlantic salmon farms around British Columbia’s Discovery Islands. Murray says in a news release the Discovery Islands...
Injured sea lion rescued
he SeaDoc Society assembled a team of marine professionals to take part in a dramatic rescue of a sea lion which had become entangled in discarded plastic that was cutting into its flesh. The...
Buoyant at last
ou don’t have to spend a lot of time talking to Washington State Parks employees about the state of marine parks before the conversation drifts to the many mooring buoys that have failed. There’s...
Marine borders open wider
Entering Canada On April 1, Canada’s rules of entry at the US-Canada border eased for recreational boaters. Fully vaccinated travellers no longer need a pre-entry Covid-19 test and children under five are not required...
Massive rogue wave
A massive ocean wave that was tracked off the west coast of Vancouver Island in 2020 is now considered the most extreme rogue wave ever recorded, according to scientists at the University of Victoria....
VIM put in receivership
The Victoria International Marina, opened in 2018 for the moorage of superyachts, has been placed in receivership. The marina was put up for sale in March. Read in the Times Colonist …
