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DEMSHITZ KAYAKER SAVES CREW MEMBER OF TUGBOAT WHICH CAPSIZED IN SKOOKUMCHUCK!
Watch this incredible video of a kayaker rushing to rescue the men swimming for their lives in the Skookumchuck Rapids as their tugboat overturns while towing a large fuel and equipment barge.
This is amazing footage and the kayaker needs to be recognized for [...]

Cruising Aboard ResidenSea’s ‘The World’

It was a beautiful morning as I sat on the front porch, drinking coffee, overlooking Jervis Inlet, taking a few photos of the calm water, various boats as they motored past, and watching Hugo rolling in the grass, playing with his newest toy – a length of rope!
Something caught my eye [...]

Good news and bad news coming up!
The good news is that boating season has seriously begun here in Beautiful British Columbia and Kent and I will be heading to Egmont to live aboard our boat, the Jervis Mist, for the next 5 months.
Our base is the dock at my ‘Pop’s place, where we tie and [...]

Here are a few prawn fishing photos – not having very much luck today! I think there will be just enough for a late afternoon snack.
Here are Don and John working hard for their dinner!

This is what happens when your trap gets stuck on a rock or an old sunken log and you try [...]

Hugo is my little Boating Buddy!

He absolutely loves being aboard the boat and seems to have no fear of being out on deck while we are underway. Of course, I’m afraid his little claws will slip on the fibreglass and he’ll go overboard so I watch him every second. He has gone over [...]