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Norm Cooper

Nigel Calder, world renowned boat system expert, author and educator will be coming to Western Canada in April 2015.  His BCA hosted educational tour will include stops in Vancouver, Victoria, Nanaimo and Calgary. Nigel Calder Daytime Educational Seminars in Vancouver & Victoria Nigel’s two daytime educational seminars will be held in Vancouver & Victoria.  The […]

Cameron and Marianne McLean, Vancouver Fleet Coordinators

The regular Vancouver Fleet meeting for February is on the 24th and features Guy Druce. Guy’s presentation is titled “Electronics – High Tech / Low Tech”. He will discuss his experience as navigator in last year’s Vic Maui race as navigator on a fairly high-tech boat in contrast to his circumnavigation in a low-tech one. […]

Connie Morahan

The Fleet’s next meeting is scheduled for February 11th at 18:30h at StarFish Medical, 455 Boleskine Rd., Victoria. The topic is “Using HF Radio for E-mail, WFax & GRIB files” by Bjarne Hansen. The topic of the February 25th Fleet meeting is ‘Preparing for Heavy Weather Sailing’ with Tony Gooch, in the Chatham Room at Royal […]

It is that time of year when we ask you, as the Primary Member, to check your member profile on the BCA website. Why is checking your information so important? Because Geraldine Guilfoyle and Donna Sassaman, Directory Coordinators, are preparing to compile the 2015 Member Directory and, if your website profile is up-to-date, your directory entries […]

Don Hutchison

There is no preparation for going offshore quite like being offshore. You can do this by joining VICE 2015 (Vancouver Island Cruising Experience). Each year BCA vessels from all three chapters get together online to plan a multi-day offshore trip, usually in late June/early July. They wait for a weather window on the West Coast […]

Ahoy, BCA members who joined the Association prior to December 31, 2012! Due to an unfortunate glitch with our website provider, you did not receive an email notification that your membership was going to expire on December 31st. A follow-up reminder was emailed on December 30th, but that email may have disappeared or not been seen due […]

Ian was born in Montreal on September 9, 1934 and passed at 8 bells (End of Watch) at 0800h on 18 December, 2014. He and I were married in 1982 in St. John’s, Newfoundland. Ian had four children from a previous marriage. Ian was a photographer: commercial, industrial, CN, National Research Council, CIL. Since 1977, he was an […]

The 2015 Member Directory will be printed and mailed in the next few months. To ensure that your entries in the directory are current and accurate, make it one of your New Year’s resolutions to check your BCA website information today! If you are new to BCA, or have experienced any changes over the past […]

Cameron and Marianne McLean, Vancouver Fleet Coordinators

The January meeting will be on Tuesday the 27th and will cover boat electrics presented by John Neilson. The Fleet meets at 1900h at the Scottish Cultural Centre on the fourth Tuesday of the month, September to November, and then January to June. If you would like to join the Fleet, show up at one of the regular […]

Connie Morahan

The Fleet’s next meeting is scheduled for January 14th at 6:30 pm in the Chatham Room at Royal Victoria Yacht Club. The topic is “The Ultimate Shakedown Cruise” from Victoria to Hawaii and return in 2 months. The topic of the January 28th Fleet meeting is ‘OpenCPN’ – installing and using this open source chartplotter and GPS […]