Potts Lagoon, West Cracroft Island
Lagoons are enticing destinations, but many along the coast can be challenging to enter. Those with a large elliptical basin and a narrow neck opening often pose difficulties, especially if they have depth, as strong currents can form at the entrance. However, one lagoon that provides safe anchorage for boats traveling to or from The […]
Top 5 Weekend Boating Getaways in BC
Top Weekend Boating Getaways in BC Trips from Vancouver, Victoria, and Nanaimo British Columbia is a boater’s paradise, offering stunning coastal landscapes, sheltered waters, and charming destinations perfect for a weekend escape. Whether you’re departing from Vancouver, Victoria, or Nanaimo, there’s no shortage of incredible places to explore. Here are five of the best weekend […]
Deer Harbor Marina, Orcas Island
Deer Harbor Marina, a top cruising destination on Orcas Island in the San Juan Islands, is beloved by boaters for good reason. Originally inhabited by the Lummi people, Deer Harbor was settled by European-Americans in the 1880s, who established a thriving community with a school, post office, orchards, and industries in fishing and timber. Today, […]
Wallace Island Marine Park, B.C.’s Gulf Islands
Located in Trincomali Channel between Galiano and Saltspring Islands, there’s a little island where you can sense what it was like in the 1940’s and 50’s to live on a remote island. A place where, if you let your imagination go, you can get a feeling of how these adventurous and hardy souls lived. In […]
Pender Harbour, Sechelt Peninsula
Known for its laid-back lifestyle, scenic beauty and wide array of events and festivals, Pender Harbour. The harbour is a fabulous place to relax and play. A place dripping with salty history and modern leisure. The community once relied on fishing and forestry to drive the economy, but now they have turned their efforts to […]
Olympia, Washington
Located at the foot of 100-mile-long Puget Sound in Budd Inlet, Washington State’s waterfront state capital is an ideal cruising destination. Olympia sits in the shadow of the Olympic Mountains to the northwest and the state’s capitol dome dominating the skyline to the east. The southern end of Budd Inlet splits into two smaller waterways, […]
Sucia Island Marine Park
There’s something very special about Sucia Island Marine State Park’s incredible beauty, many bays, coves, beaches, and trails. Its shoreline is the product of Mother Nature’s artistry with smooth sandstone curves, rounded arches, and honeycomb hollows, plus six bays possessing their own unique personality. You can spend a week at a time here and every […]
Otter Bay Marina
On the west side of North Pender Island visiting boaters enjoy a variety of services and activities at the Otter Bay Marina. It is open year-round, providing full service from May 15 to September 30 and reservations are recommended during the summer. Visiting mariners will discover 15-, 30- and 50-amp power, water, washrooms, showers, laundry, […]
Tenedos Bay, Desolation Sound
Located within the boundaries of Desolation Sound Provincial Park and only a 7.3-mile passage for Refuge Cove on West Redondo Island, the first glimpse of the Tenedos Bay leaves a lasting impression, with its steep encompassing rock cliffs, emerald-green water, and a view of 483-meter Mt. Spooner to the southeast. All the ingredients are here […]
Nanaimo, Vancouver Island
Known as the “Harbour City” for its incredible downtown harbour district, Nanaimo is the second largest city on Vancouver Island and a popular cruising destination. It was first known as Snuneymuxw – meaning “great and mighty people” in the language of the Salish natives – and the first settlers who arrived in the mid-1800s translated […]