Tag Archives: Boats

A Message for Luxury Yachts Appears at Cortes Bay

Three new signs have recently been greeting boaters arriving in Cortes Bay.

They say: 

  • “200 gal/740 l diesel = 2 tons CO2”
  • “<2 tons CO2 per person per year = safe fair share”
  • “luxury emissions wipe out life”
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Cortes sailing school offers access, training to underrepresented individuals in an ‘elitist sport’

By Louis Belcourt, CKTZ News, through an LJI grant from Canada-info.ca

A local sailing company “Calma Sailing” is offering a free sailing course aimed at providing Indigenous and lower-income people an opportunity to learn the sport.

“I think sailing is a bit of an elitist sport,” said Dominik Domanski, co-owner of Calma Sailing. “It seems so inaccessible.”

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Tales from Land Conservancies on Cortes, Quadra & 15 Other Islands

In 2021 Sheila Harrington embarked upon a three-year journey to explore the creation of local nature conservancies on 17 islands. Cortes and Quadra Islands were among them. She conducted more than 50 interviews, and wove together a chronicle of land conservancies and the people behind them since the 1990s. The resulting book, ‘Voices for the Islands, 30 Years Of Nature Conservation On The Salish Sea’ is just being released by Heritage House.

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Wrecked Boat on the Rocks Below My Property

Text by Myrna Kerr; Photos by Mike Manson

A boat did a PanPan (“Possible Assistance Needed”) call at 4 AM on January 26, but the contact was not clear. So the Air Sea Rescue Helicopter went out looking for it.  The Sailboat was on the rocks below my house and, of course, out of sight even if it had lights on.

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