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GYC features in Canadian Boating Magazine
Mar 28, 2024

Destinations | Ports of Call

"Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing – absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats." ― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

Back to the days when most sailors made their boats in their garages, backyards, or basements, because that would have been the only way that they could procure a boat of any type. Boaters of yore were hardy folk who endured sleeping on floor boards in open boats with very little shelter, no boat cushions, cotton sails that never dried out and often succumbed to mildew, a hand compass and line of sight was used to navigate, no GPS or chart plotters, and their idea of a head was a bucket, if you were lucky. Read more...