Chester Race Week Video

My husband just spotted this video about Chester Race Week.  We sail but we don’t race, so this video gives me a feeling about what it’s like to be involved in this event.  It’s Canada’s largest keelboat regatta!

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Sailing a home built catamaran in Mahone Bay

My friend Søren just made a lovely video about sailing his catamaran in Mahone Bay. Music is by Drumlin, a local group of 4 very talented siblings from Bridgewater. Here it is:

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Lunenburg in the fog

It has been raining for weeks now, it seems. A quasi-stationary low has delivered warm, moist air to the South Shore on an ongoing basis.
Lunenburg is still picturesque through the fog. You get a new appreciation for why the buildings are so brightly painted. It’s a cool place to hang [...]

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Sailing from Halifax to Canso in a dinghy!

Here’s a lovely account of Rob Dunbar’s adventure, in 2006, of sailing solo along the Eastern Shore of Nova Scotia in a sailing dinghy. Took him 8 days. He was going in the right direction; coming the other way you could expect it to be harder with prevailing winds against you. The [...]

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